Incident date: 2018-05-24
NAICS industry code: 541320

Employees were mowing and trimming grass. While one employee was holding a mower's rear push bar, another employee lifted the front of the mower to carry it down four or five steps. While the employee was holding the front of the mower, his left ring finger came in contact with the spinning blade amputating the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Lawn mowers-nonriding, powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high