Incident date: 2019-05-06
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was flipping a concrete slab, tread side up, in preparation for shipping. As he was flipping the concrete slab, the load shifted and started to swing. The employee s hand was caught between the slab and an adjacent object. The employee was hospitalized with a hand laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Concrete blocks, cinder blocks
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate