Incident date: 2021-09-08
NAICS industry code: 236220

Employees were repairing a guardrail system which had been damaged by back-fill soil material. A skid-steer was removing soil from the guardrail system while the injured employee was pulling a stanchion out and away from the skid-steer bucket. The bucket caught the employee's right index finger against the stanchion; the fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high