Incident date: 2018-03-08
NAICS industry code: 331221

An employee was hooking up two bundles to an overhead hoist when the operator raised the hoist, pulling up slack in the chain. The employee's thumb was then pinched and fractured between the chain and the bundle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Overhead hoists, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate