Incident date: 2025-06-26
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was operating the water truck. While lifting up a cage lid with their left hand, the employee used their right hand to turn off the water truck pump. The cage lid slipped out of their hand and crushed their right hand, resulting in amputation of approximately a half inch of their right ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of vehicle or machine, still attached
code_source: title: Caps, lids, covers  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high