Incident date: 2020-06-24
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was assisting in attaching a bucket, with a large pin, to an excavator. The pin was dropped and it crushed the injured employee's hand against the bucket. The employee sustained the amputation of the ring finger and was hospitalized with open fractures to multiple fingers of the left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high