Incident date: 2022-02-18
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was attempting to release a pivoting fifth wheel plate on a frameless dump trailer. The pin would not release, so he asked another employee to put the truck in reverse to relieve pressure on the pin while he used a hammer to gain leverage on the releasing mechanism. The pivoting plate caught his right index finger and amputated it below the second knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high