Incident date: 2024-05-22
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was trimming hedges when their hand slipped off the cross bars of the gas-powered hedge shears and their right middle and ring fingers were amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Scissors, snips, shears
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high