Incident date: 2016-10-18
NAICS industry code: 237120

The employee was attempting to couple a pipe trailer to a hitch on a backhoe and got a finger caught between the coupler on the trailer and the receiver on the backhoe after lifting it to connect the two. The right index finger was amputated.

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