Incident date: 2024-10-24
NAICS industry code: 327331

On October 24, 2024, an employee was hooking a claw to an excavator bucket via a chain on the end of an excavator. Their left middle finger was caught between the chain and the bucket as the excavator arm was lifted, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Excavators
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high