Incident date: 2024-10-15
NAICS industry code: 331492

An employee was helping the driver of a lugger truck pick up a lugger box using hydraulic arms. The employee was holding a pin extension to help dump the lugger box. His left hand was caught in a pinch point when the lugger box was engaged and moved. The employee suffered amputation of his left index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Dump trucks
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high