Incident date: 2020-07-24
NAICS industry code: 236118

An employee was working on a boom lift when the equipment started to slowly come down and the basket tilted sideways. As the employee tried to push the basket away from the wall his left hand got caught between the top rail of the basket and the wall resulting in fractures to the thumb, index, and middle fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate