OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #822676
THE BLUE DIAMOND COMPANY
ARNOLD, MD·
Event description
Employee's fingers crushed by falling lift mast
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was trying to remove a jammed barrel jack (hand truck) from the fork s of a Yale forklift truck, model #G83P-040-SWS. The barrel jack had become jamm ed between the mast and the forks when the forks were raised. Employee #1 placed his left hand on a structural member of the mast and pulled on the barrel jack with his right hand. When the barrel jack came free, the mast dropped 6 to 10 in . The middle and ring fingers on Employee #1's left hand were crushed between th e structural member and the top of the hydraulic hoist cylinder.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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