Incident date: 2018-08-24
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was in a scissor lift welding lintels. The scissor lift platform was struck from below by a moving personnel hoist crushing the employee into the ceiling. The employee sustained a fractured arm and wrist, a collapsed lung, a blood clot in the lung, and kidney damage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate