STRUCTURAL STEEL SERVICES, INC.

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury — MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI

HOSPITALIZED — Worker hospitalized after incident at STRUCTURAL STEEL SERVICES, INC. in MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI
Employer STRUCTURAL STEEL SERVICES, INC. Report ID 2017032817
Address 6215 ST. LOUIS STREET City, State ZIP MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI 39301
Event Date March 28, 2017 Outcome Hospitalized
Nature of Injury Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury Body Part Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Event Type Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment Source of Injury Beams-unattached metal
Industry (NAICS) 332312 Inspection # 1221807
GPS Coordinates 32.32000, -88.74000

Incident Narrative

An employee was moving a steel beam to a truck with an overhead crane. The employee attached the crane hook into a bolt hole at one end of the steel beam to be moved. The steel was lifted and lowered to dunnage. The steel beam slipped from the dunnage and pinched the employee's left thumb, requiring hospitalization.

Incident Summary

On March 28, 2017, a worker at STRUCTURAL STEEL SERVICES, INC. in MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI suffered soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury to the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified. The incident was classified as compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment, with beams-unattached metal identified as the source of injury. The worker was hospitalized.

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