Incident date: 2020-03-16
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was operating an aerial lift and was elevated 9.5 feet. While traveling backwards, he was pinned between the cage of the aerial lift and overhead structure bracing. The employee's chest/neck area was pinned, cutting off oxygen and resulting in strangulation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Asphyxiations, strangulations, suffocations
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate