Incident date: 2020-05-21
NAICS industry code: 331523

An employee was knocking risers off of castings using a sledge hammer. As he was swinging the sledge hammer, his left index finger was smashed between the sledge hammer handle and a part of the casting. The injury resulted in a soft tissue defect with an amputation at the distal aspect of the left index finger (no bone loss).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Sledges, sledgehammers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high