Incident date: 2020-02-18
NAICS industry code: 488320

An employee was being lifted in a man basket and tried to hook up a cable to a construction truck bucket. He asked the forklift operator to raise him higher and his finger was pinched between the man basket and a bolt, causing a deep tissue injury that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate