Incident date: 2024-10-02
NAICS industry code: 562991

An employee was positioning a lifting hook on the back of the truck and removed a pin on the hook housing. The hooks rotated and the employee's left-hand fingers were caught between a hook and the housing. The employee sustained an amputation of the little fingertip and a crushing fracture to the ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Trucks with mounted machines, equipment  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high