Incident date: 2024-07-10
NAICS industry code: 327991

A forklift was stuck in mud in the stone yard. The injured employee was attaching a chain to a skid steer so it could tow the forklift out of the mud. The chain was pulled, causing it to tighten on the employee's hand and resulting in amputation of their left thumb tip.

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