Incident date: 2015-02-03
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was walking behind a ditch witch, digging a ditch for underground fiber optic lines.  The equipment hit a rut in the ground and fell to the side, trapping the employee's right hand between the controls and a tree.  The right thumb was severely cut and was barely hanging on by two pieces of flesh.  The employee was transported and admitted to Grady hospital.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Trenchers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, unspecified
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate