Incident date: 2018-03-07
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was installing a gas service/main and was in a trench standing on the gas main to push it down. His hand was on the lip of the excavation while an excavator operator was moving a road plate several inches. The operator put the road plate down, catching and breaking the employee's thumb between the excavation lip and the road plate.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal plates, metal panels
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate