Incident date: 2020-08-05
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was climbing out of a trench when the bucket of a trackhoe struck the employee's hand, crushing it between the edge of the bucket and the surface of a road. The employee suffered a partial fingertip amputation of the left ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high