Incident date: 2020-11-30
NAICS industry code: 237310

A crew was loading an excavator onto a drop deck trailer for hauling. As one employee was placing a steel plate on the deck, the excavator's boom was engaged and caught the employee's right hand. The employee's right middle finger was crushed, and had to be medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high