Incident date: 2022-07-17
NAICS industry code: 339112

An employee was using an overhead crane to remove a spacer plate from a machine. The plate had been raised over the machine, and the employee was trying to remove the bolts connecting it, when it dropped onto the employee's right hand and broke his thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate