Incident date: 2025-04-15
NAICS industry code: 237310

Employees were laying asphalt paving on a highway. The injured employee was walking beside the paver machine with his hand on top of the road widener extension. The extension was lowered and his finger was pinched between the machine and a steel guardrail along the side of the highway. As a result, the injured employee sustained an amputation of his right middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Concrete paving machines, pavers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high