Incident date: 2023-11-21
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was hooking up a trailer to a pickup truck. The trailer hitch slipped and their finger was pinched between the hitch and the ball. The employee's left middle fingertip 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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high