Incident date: 2024-10-24
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was aligning a truck and trailer and caught his left middle finger between the trailer hitch and the truck's ball hitch, resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

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