Incident date: 2019-09-26
NAICS industry code: 238910

At about 10:15 a.m. on September 26, 2019, an employee was helping to set a manhole section on a site. The hook keeper on the chain sling broke, causing the manhole section to drop. The employee's left index finger and thumb were pinned between two manhole sections, suffering severe trauma.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Manhole and cistern covers
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate