Incident date: 2024-02-26
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was trying to set a fence post in the ground. The employee retrieved a post driver and was setting the post with it when his finger was caught on the downward motion of the post driver, resulting in an amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object held or wielded by person
code_source: title: Striking and nailing handtools  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high