Incident date: 2018-08-14
NAICS industry code: 423720

An employee was operating the lift gate on his truck with a controller. He slipped in the mud and fell, and the controller lowered the gate onto the tip of his thumb. The tip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high