Incident date: 2020-12-03
NAICS industry code: 333112

An employee was assisting a coworker in attaching two hooks of a four-legged sling to a mower when the employee's finger was pinched between the hoist hook and the mower attachment point. The employee sustained an avulsion on his left-hand pinky finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Overhead hoists, unspecified
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate