Incident date: 2016-08-31
NAICS industry code: 324121

An employee was hooking up a trailer with a port-a-potty on it to a truck hitch. As the employee manually lifted the trailer bed to hook it to the truck hitch, the employee dropped the bed and pinched his middle finger on the block resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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