Incident date: 2023-06-13
NAICS industry code: 488999

An employee was hitching a towable trailer to a pickup truck. The top part of his right index finger was amputated in the hitch point as he tried to check the trailer connection to the ball mount.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Pickup truck
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high