Incident date: 2019-11-12
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was reattaching a thumb grapple to an excavator when he lost control of the hydraulic and his hand was pinned between the hydraulic and the thumb grapple. He suffered a severed tendon and broken finger, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate