Incident date: 2025-04-14
NAICS industry code: 238910

On April 14, 2025, an employee was hooking a small dump trailer to a ball hitch. The employee's middle fingertip was caught between the ball and the hitch and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Vehicle trailers, trailing units
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high