Incident date: 2019-01-11
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was helping a backhoe operator place a concrete inlet box. The employee was holding the wire rope cable with his left hand when the backhoe lifted the box. The cable cut the employee's hand, resulting in a finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high