Incident date: 2019-01-31
NAICS industry code: 333298

An employee was connecting a gooseneck trailer to a hitch when the employee's finger was caught and smashed between the trailer connector and hitch body, resulting in a surgical finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high