Incident date: 2020-10-11
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was hooking up a flatbed trailer to a pickup truck. While letting the hitch down onto the receiver ball, the hitch became bound. The employee jostled the hitch pin while continuing to let the jack stand down. The hitch slipped while the employee's fingertip was in the safety pin hole, causing a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high