Incident date: 2019-11-12
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was dumping a 55-gallon drum into a galvanizing trough with the assistance of a cab-operated crane. As the drum was dumping, the employee's thumb was pinched between the drum and the galvanizing trough. The employee suffered a broken left thumb that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate