Incident date: 2025-08-22
NAICS industry code: 541330

An employee was standing and talking to a Department of Transportation employee about the project. They were 40 feet away from a pile-driving operation when a piece of the cast iron pile-driving hammer broke off and struck the employee's hand. The employee sustained a severed artery, laceration, and fractures in their hand, as well as contusions to a leg. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Chips, pellets  metal
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
severity: moderate