Incident date: 2019-09-06
NAICS industry code: 541330

An employee was using a digging bar to break rock that was preventing a trench box from fitting into an excavation. The tool caused a compound fracture to the employee's ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Handtools-power not determined, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate