Incident date: 2021-10-25
NAICS industry code: 238190

Employees were swapping out a fork attachment for a bucket attachment on a loader. The locking pin got stuck. An employee used a piece of rebar to remove debris from the pin receiver; the pin dislodged quickly and his left ring and little fingers were caught between the pin and the receiver. He suffered amputations to both fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high