Incident date: 2023-11-02
NAICS industry code: 325320

An employee was closing a loaded a trailer and activated the dock leveler control panel to retract the lip of the leveler. The lip did not fully retract and the employee attempted to pull the lip into the retracted position manually. The lip then extended, catching the employee's right middle finger and crushing it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate