Incident date: 2024-11-08
NAICS industry code: 811111

An employee was using a sledge hammer to remove a tire from a truck when her right little finger got caught between the sledge hammer and the truck, resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object held or wielded by person
code_source: title: Sledges, sledgehammers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high