Incident date: 2024-12-13
NAICS industry code: 532412

An employee was helping a customer place a trailer hitch onto the hitch ball. While determining why the hitch would not go onto the ball, the employee placed his index finger up into the hitch. At the same time, the customer placed his vehicle in park and took his foot off of the brake. The vehicle moved and pinched the employee's index fingertip, resulting in amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
code_source: title: Roadway vehicle  motorized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high