Incident date: 2015-04-21
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee suffered a thumb amputation while performing demolition work when an excavator pinned the employee's thumb between a wall and a tooth of the excavator bucket.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high