Fractures

Name: Fractures at Handi-Lift Inc.
Start: 6/10/2020

1 hospitalization · 2020065393 · 6/10/2020 · Handi-Lift Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
Source: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Handi-Lift Inc.
Location: 319 State Street, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11201
NAICS: 238290
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was helping to guide a home elevator piston onto a jack stand. While the chain-fall was being lowered, his thumb was pinched between the bottom of the piston and the top of the piston jack. A bone in the left thumb was crushed.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown