Incident date: 2025-07-28
NAICS industry code: 237310

On July 28, 2025, an employee was connecting a trailer to the hitch on a truck when the trailer tongue slipped. The employee's left little fingertip was crushed between the trailer tongue and the ball hitch. The employee sustained an amputation.

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