Incident date: 2018-04-27
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was hooking up a trailer to a truck. His left index finger was on the trailer tongue when the tongue dropped over the truck ball, catching and partially amputating his finger between the trailer and the truck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high