Incident date: 2023-04-06
NAICS industry code: 331110

An employee was preparing to pick up two steel, round bars to be loaded into a truck. In order to have space for the lifting tongs to grab the bars, the employee needed to move the wedges to space the round bars out. The tongs were resting on the round bars and as the employee reached between the tongs and the round bar to move the wedge, the tongs fell on the employee's hand, pinching it between the tongs and the round bar. The employee sustained crush injuries that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate