Incident date: 2015-06-03
NAICS industry code: 331314

An employee was swinging a sledgehammer to knock pins out of aluminum sows and smashed his left hand pointer finger in the process. The employee was taken to the hospital where it was determined that the finger needed to be amputated.

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), n.e.c.
severity: high