Incident date: 2017-07-18
NAICS industry code: 333120

An employee was trying to guide an outrigger beam into an outrigger box. As the beam slid into the box, the hydraulic cylinder inside the beam smashed the employee's thumb against the inside of the box. The employee required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate