Incident date: 2024-05-31
NAICS industry code: 115112

An employee was working on a hydraulic cylinder on a trackhoe. A strap securing a cylinder slipped and the cylinder struck and pinched the employee's left middle and index fingers which were inside the piston rod eye hole, causing a partial amputation of both fingertips at the nail plate.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by propelled, falling, or suspended object  unspecified
code_source: title: Hydraulic and pressurized cylinders
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high