Incident date: 2015-11-10
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was unloading equipment from a tilt trailer. A D-ring from one of the hold-down straps was caught between the trailer and the tilt bed. The employee tried to knock out the D-ring with a sledge hammer. When the D-ring was knocked out, the trailer bed came down and amputated the employee's right index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high