Incident date: 2020-05-05
NAICS industry code: 561320

An employee was unloading a truck of medical supplies. As the employee lifted the truck's lift gate and the automatic dock plate, the employee's hand was caught between the lift gate and the dock. The employee sustained crushing injuries to the right hand second through fifth fingers, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate