Incident date: 2025-06-27
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was using an overhead crane to move a trench compaction pinwheel in the maintenance shop. The employee was stabilizing the pinwheel with their left hand as it was moving. Their left little finger was pinched between the pinwheel and a trench box, resulting in amputation of the fingertip and fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine front attachments
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high