Incident date: 2018-10-29
NAICS industry code: 541620

An employee was climbing onto an excavator when the ring on his finger became caught on the equipment's mirror bracket. He received an avulsion on his left ring finger and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate