Incident date: 2017-07-01
NAICS industry code: 424410

An employee was connecting the fifth wheel of a tractor to a trailer when the wheel bounced up and caught the employee's ring finger, causing a compound fracture and severe laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate