Incident date: 2018-12-06
NAICS industry code: 238990

While attaching a trailer attachment to a low-boy trailer, an employee's  left index finger was  smashed between the attachment and the low-boy trailer's connectors resulting in amputation of the first knuckle.

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), n.e.c.
severity: high