Incident date: 2017-10-13
NAICS industry code: 532490

An employee was wearing gloves while replacing a track tensioner on an excavator when his right hand was caught between the machine's track adjuster and the metal tracks, amputating his middle fingertip without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high