Incident date: 2021-04-22
NAICS industry code: 236116

An employee was holding a stake for concrete molding while a co-worker was driving the stake with a 10-pound hammer. The employee thought the co-worker was finished and grabbed the top of the stake to assist himself up from a kneeling/bending position when the hammer struck the end of the employee's right-hand pinky finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person
code_source: title: Hammers, except sledge-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high