Incident date: 2025-03-13
NAICS industry code: 541715

An employee was orienting a truck to align a ball socket with a trailer hitch. The employee moved the tongue in an attempt to shift the trailer coupler and allow it to drop onto the hitch ball mount. This caused the coupler to move and descend on the ball. The three middle fingers of the employee's left hand were caught between the trailer coupler and the ball hitch, and the three fingertips were crushed and partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Vehicle trailers, trailing units
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high