Incident date: 2020-06-10
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was helping to guide a home elevator piston onto a jack stand. While the chain-fall was being lowered, his thumb was pinched between the bottom of the piston and the top of the piston jack. A bone in the left thumb was crushed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate