Incident date: 2024-11-20
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee and his crew began assembling trench boxes for an upcoming culvert replacement operation. The crew used a wheel loader with forks to lift the top plate into position when the plate became misaligned with a post. The injured employee's right index fingertip was in the retaining pin hole as the signal person lifted, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Bucket, front-end, and pay loaders
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high