Incident date: 2023-02-21
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee was assisting in the movement of a reel of steel wire onto a truck using a forklift and a sling. The load became stuck on a stanchion and the employee pulled up on the load, causing the employee's hand to become caught/crushed between the reel and the boom of the forklift. The employee sustained two hand fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate