Incident date: 2024-02-12
NAICS industry code: 488999

An employee was connecting a tugger vehicle to muffler dollies in order to pull them. Her left hand was on the backrest of the tugger and her right hand was on the tugger string wheel. When she backed up to connect the tugger to a dolly, her left hand was caught between the tugger and the dolly, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Industrial carrier  powered
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high