Incident date: 2025-05-28
NAICS industry code: 928110

An employee relocated a stair stand with a tow tractor and was working to disconnect the tow tractor from the maintenance stand. The employee was manually operating the tractor's throttle to reverse and relieve pressure on the pintle hook. The tractor unexpectedly lurched forward, trapping the employee s left ring fingertip between the tractor s pintle hook latch and the maintenance stand s tow plate. The fingertip was partially amputated without loss of bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
code_source: title: Industrial carrier  powered
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high