Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ports America, 3927 Wharf Rd, GALVESTON, TEXAS 77550
on , Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was being lifted in a man basket and tried to hook up a cable to a construction truck bucket. He asked the forklift operator to raise him higher and his finger was pinched between the man basket and a bolt, causing a deep tissue injury that required surgery.
HospitalizedFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered