Incident date: 2024-12-03
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was operating a magnetic concrete drill when the drill bit became tangled with the existing rebar on a finished concrete slab. The employee shut the drill off and untangled the drill bit when it unexpectedly jumped. The employee sustained the amputation of their right middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Stationary drills, milling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high