Incident date: 2019-11-11
NAICS industry code: 321912

Two employees were cleaning up debris in a yard. A piece of wood fell over as one of them was swinging an axe to split it; the other employee's left hand was caught between the wood and the axe, and the ring finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person
code_source: title: Axes, hatchets
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high