Incident date: 2023-09-15
NAICS industry code: 922140

An employee was helping to move office furniture. As he was moving an empty file cabinet with a hand truck, the cabinet slipped and fell against the handle of the hand truck squeezing the employee's right hand and thumb, resulting in a laceration and a possible fracture and further injury that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cabinets, cases-display, storage
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate