Incident date: 2018-08-29
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was unhitching a welding trailer from a buggy. As the trailer hitch released, his left thumb was crushed between the hitch and the buggy bumper. The thumb was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high