Incident date: 2019-12-13
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was using a battery-powered hand drill to get paint out of tapped holes in a framework and mount casters/level feet when the employee's right thumb was caught in between the framework foot pad and concrete floor, resulting in a partial distal phalange amputation of the left thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high