Incident date: 2025-03-18
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was lowering the excavator bucket. The employee placed his hand underneath to hook a chain and his right index finger and thumb got caught in the chain, resulting in partial amputations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Excavators
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s) and finger(s)
severity: high