Incident date: 2016-09-08
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was cleaning asphalt material from the back of a truck with a scraper when the truck's tailgate moved and trapped his right pinky finger in a pinch point, amputating it to the second joint.

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