Incident date: 2016-07-23
NAICS industry code: 321912

An employee was attaching the bush hog arm to the tractor hitch. The arm slipped over the hitch and pinched the tip of the employee's right middle finger resulting in the avulsion of the fingertip and nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Brush hogs-tractor
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high