Incident date: 2025-08-21
NAICS industry code: 813312

On August 21, 2025, an employee was hitching a 20-foot flatbed trailer loaded with a tractor to a pickup truck. As she placed her left fingers near the hitch mechanism to check the remaining distance needed for coupling, the trailer jack dropped into place, contacting her middle and ring fingers. The hitch and ball then made contact with her middle finger. The employee suffered crush injuries to her middle and ring fingers and a fingertip amputation of the middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Vehicle trailers, trailing units
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high