Incident date: 2018-05-24
NAICS industry code: 112111

An employee was pulling a tractor out of the mud using a second tractor and a winch. The hook of the winch-cable slipped out of place and hit the employee's left thumb, catching it against the tractor resulting in amputation of one phalanx.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Farm tractor
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high