Incident date: 2015-05-09
NAICS industry code: 928110

On May 9, 2015, at approximately 10:00 a.m., a maintenance employee was hospitalized after receiving fractures to his left hand. He was injured when he reached into an access panel for the 1951 freight elevator to operate a manual override due to the outer set of doors not opening.  The elevator moved, and his hand got caught between the elevator and shaft.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate