Incident date: 2018-03-22
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was setting a pin in a boom to connect two sections. When the employee went to hit the pin with a sledgehammer, his hand slipped and the sledgehammer struck his hand, fracturing his finger and resulting in an amputation.

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