Incident date: 2025-02-15
NAICS industry code: 326121

The injured employee was holding plastic lumber material so that another employee could strike the lumber to push it back into the machine. The injured employee was struck by the plastic lumber hammer, resulting in lacerations and a partial fingertip amputation of their left index finger through the phalanx.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object held or wielded by person
code_source: title: Other hammers, mallets
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high