Incident date: 2025-06-26
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was pruning shrubs with gas-powered shears. The employee changed their grip to cut around a corner and their left index fingertip was caught in the blades. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Scissors, snips, shears
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high