Incident date: 2024-01-09
NAICS industry code: 562920

An employee was lowering a powered lift gate on a truck. While the employee was attempting to untangle the chain, the chain caught their left thumb, which resulted in an amputation to the thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Trucks  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high