Incident date: 2025-03-29
NAICS industry code: 561730

Employees were loading an excavator onto a flatbed truck. The injured employee was holding a piece of chain attached to the excavator and was guiding the machine operator when the excavator bucket lowered onto their right hand. The employee sustained amputations to their right middle, ring, and little fingers.

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