Incident date: 2019-03-21
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was hooking up a chain from the bucket of a backhoe to a trench box. The trench box was moved, and the employee's right ring finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high