Incident date: 2018-05-23
NAICS industry code: 541320

An employee was moving a tag line on a soil bucket when the tag line became hung up on the stop block. The employee was attempting to grab the bucket handle when his right third finger was caught between the stop block and the tag line, amputating his finger past the first knuckle.

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