Incident date: 2025-05-08
NAICS industry code: 561730

At about 4:15 p.m. on May 8, 2025, an employee was working to connect a trailer to a truck when one of the employee's fingers was caught and crushed between the truck hitch and the trailer hitch. The employee sustained a fractured left middle finger, was hospitalized, and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Vehicle trailers, trailing units
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate