Incident date: 2025-04-30
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was rigging a portable welding machine to the lifting hook of an excavator. Their right hand became caught between the excavator bucket and the welding machine. The employee sustained a laceration to their hand and a fracture/dislocation to their middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Other multiple traumatic injuries  n.e.c.
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate