Incident date: 2016-10-08
NAICS industry code: 811111

An employee was lowering a folding trailer tongue with a coworker when they lost control of the towing arm. The arm caught the employee's hand, severing the right thumb and partially severing the right pinky finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high