Incident date: 2022-03-24
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was holding square tubing in place while another employee used a sledgehammer to hammer it. The employee was trying to straighten up the tubing when the sledgehammer smashed his thumb. He was hospitalized and underwent a medical amputation to the thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person
code_source: title: Sledges, sledgehammers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high