Incident date: 2021-09-25
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was cleaning excess material off the back end of a dump truck when the truck's tailgate closed. The employee's right middle and ring fingertips got pinched between the tailgate and dump bed, resulting in amputations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Dump truck
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high