Incident date: 2015-11-13
NAICS industry code: 333112

An employee was pulling tarp over the bed of a flatbed truck. As the employee dismounted the truck, the employee's wedding ring got caught on a truck bolt. The ring finger had to be surgically amputated at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high