Incident date: 2017-05-19
NAICS industry code: 339950

An employee was trying to hook up a trailer to a truck hitch when his right index finger was pinched and amputated between the trailer hook and the truck hitch.

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