Incident date: 2024-11-18
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was tearing down a hydraulic tool when he dropped it. He went to catch it with his left hand and his middle finger became caught between his steel-toe boot and the tool, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Handtools  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high