Incident date: 2018-12-06
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was removing a concrete barrier wall. He had his hand on the bolt that joins two pieces of wall together, trying to remove it, when the backhoe shifted slightly and pinched his right middle finger. He pulled the finger out of the pinch point and ripped the skin off the end. The finger was amputated at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Walls
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high