Incident date: 2025-07-21
NAICS industry code: 561730

On July 21, 2025, an employee was operating a hedge trimmer when the trimmer became unstable and slipped, resulting in lacerations to his left hand that required hospitalization and surgery. The lacerations included a partial amputation of the little fingertip, a fractured ring fingertip, and severe lacerations to the middle and ring fingers that required stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object held or wielded by person
code_source: title: Cutting handtools  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high