Incident date: 2024-02-13
NAICS industry code: 336212

An employee was pushing a trailer that was resting on a sawhorse back into the weld area. His hands were on the sawhorse while pushing. The sawhorse stopped moving and the trailer shifted catching his hand in a pinch point between the trailer and the sawhorse. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the right little finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object pushed or pulled by person
code_source: title: Vehicle trailers, trailing units
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high