Incident date: 2018-09-10
NAICS industry code: 442110

An employee was standing on a lift gate and engaged the gate's controls. As the lift approached the bed of a box truck, the employee's right wrist was caught between the control box and the lift. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right wrist and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Elevators, hoists, aerial lifts, personnel platforms-except truck-mounted, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate