Incident date: 2025-05-20
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee and an operator were unloading equipment from a trailer. The employee was pulling the hitch pin on the trailer as the operator was taking the equipment off the trailer. Once the equipment was fully off, the trailer fell down onto the employee's right hand, catching it between the trailer hitch and the back bumper of the dump truck. The employee sustained a finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Vehicle trailers, trailing units
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high