Incident date: 2017-01-12
NAICS industry code: 515210

An employee was in a bucket truck removing a tree limb from an overhead cable wire when the limb fell on his hand and smashed his right ring finger against the control panel of the bucket truck. His fingertip was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Limbs, branches-unattached
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high