Incident date: 2022-10-11
NAICS industry code: 488410

On October 11, 2022, an employee was operating the winch of a tow truck to pull a semi-truck out of a ditch. Before the job was completed, the driver of the semi-truck began to drive away. The winch line was still attached to the semi-truck and amputated the employee's right thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high