Incident date: 2022-11-08
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was on top of the flatbed trailer helping to secure a 72-inch earth drilling auger that had been placed by a co-worker. A separate, 96-inch earth drilling auger was placed with the square base over asphalt paving in order to rig the other auger through the lifting eyes and load it onto the flatbed trailer. The larger auger tipped over and the blades caught the employee's fingers against the pavement, resulting in a laceration to the right middle finger that required surgical amputation several days later.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Drilling machines, drilling augers
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate