Incident date: 2019-09-19
NAICS industry code: 237110

Employees were installing a 36-inch auger bore under a railroad. A 40-foot 
length of casing and auger had just been lowered so it could be connected to the previously installed length. The casing moved unexpectedly and pinched an employee's left thumb between a block of wood and the boring machine. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Drilling machines, drilling augers
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate