Incident date: 2023-03-23
NAICS industry code: 611519

On March 23, 2023, at approximately 10:30 a.m., an employee in training was removing a pin from the thumb of an excavator when his right middle finger was caught by a moving metal object, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high