Incident date: 2019-01-23
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was operating a walk-behind skid steer. He was traveling under an elevated 18" pipe when the front of the machine dropped into a hole, raising the back of the machine and pinching his left hand between the machine and the pipe. He suffered an amputation of his left middle fingertip (approximately 1/2 inch).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high