Incident date: 2023-12-03
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high