Incident date: 2015-07-13
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was working with an impact hammer when the bit got stuck. The employee twisted the hammer to loosen it and got his right hand ring finger caught between the hammer and the scaffold rail. The employee freed his hand, but his glove got caught tearing skin from his fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Hammers-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high