Incident date: 2020-06-29
NAICS industry code: 811111

An employee was doing maintenance work on a raised automotive lift. The lift's automated locking mechanism failed and it dropped, trapping his hands beneath it. Both hands were severely lacerated. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Automobile lifts and hoists
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate