Incident date: 2024-12-20
NAICS industry code: 327992

An employee was working on a snow plow, trying to free a spring that had become struck when their finger was pinched in the springs on the snow plow. When the spring released, it amputated the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with non-running objects or equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine front attachments
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high