Use no hand hooks (crossed hook)

Do not use hooks to handle this package.

Who puts it on the box

The sender of sacks, bales and soft packages whose contents a hook would pierce or tear.

How to read it

Lift it by hand or on a pallet; do not drive a hook into it.

What it does not promise

It does not promise the contents are fragile — that is the glass — and it does not say how the package should be lifted instead.

A mark on a parcel is the sender’s statement about what is inside and how it should be handled. It is not a certificate that the parcel is packed safely, that anyone handled it as marked, or that your carrier accepts it: for what you may send, read the carrier’s own terms.

What it looks like: A hand hook (the bent steel hook dock workers use to grab sacks and bales) crossed out with an X.
Standard: ISO 780:2015, symbol No. 4 — Use no hand hooks (ISO 7000-0622)
ISO 7000 registration: ISO 7000-0622
Kind of mark: A handling symbol from ISO 780, the international standard for handling marks on distribution packages. ISO 780 marks are always black; they say how to handle the package, never that its contents are dangerous.
Also called: No hooks; Do not use hooks

Other marks with the same shape

Sling here (chain)Put the lifting slings (ropes, chains or straps of a crane) where…Do not use hand truck here (crossed trolley)Do not put the blade of a hand truck under this side of the package.Use no forks (crossed forklift)Do not lift or move this package with a forklift truck.Clamp as indicated (arrows pressing a box)A clamp truck may handle this package, gripping it on the sides…Do not clamp as indicated (crossed clamp)Do not grip the package with a clamp truck on the sides indicated.

Sources

Each document was fetched and read on the date shown. Written in our own words; quotations are the documents’ wording.

Symbol list — IBJ / bravecroc (graphical-symbol file vendor): ISO 780 EN Symbols (2015-12): the 17 ISO 780:2015 symbols with their numbers and titles — Lists ISO 780 symbol No. 4, “USE NO HAND HOOKS”, with a reference drawing, in the 2015 numbering. Checked 2026-09-27.
Standard (preview pages) — ISO (preview pages published by iTeh Standards): ISO 780:1997 Packaging — Pictorial marking for handling of goods, 4th edition (preview: clause 2 and part of Table 1) — Table 1 No. 2 USE NO HAND HOOKS, ISO 7000 No. 0622: hooks are prohibited for handling the transport package. Checked 2026-09-27.
Standard (preview pages) — ISO (preview pages published by iTeh Standards): ISO 780:2015 Packaging — Distribution packaging — Graphical symbols for handling and storage of packages, 5th edition 2015-12-01 (preview: foreword to Table 1) — Foreword: the 17 symbols of the 2015 edition; clause 3.3: symbols are black, never red, orange or yellow (to avoid confusion with dangerous-goods labels); 3.4: normally 100, 150 or 200 mm tall; 3.5 and 3.6: how many and where are fixed for symbols No. 1, 2, 3, 8 and 13; the introduction: “The use of graphical symbols does not provide any guarantee of satisfactory handling”. Checked 2026-09-27.