Incident date: 2024-05-30
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was hammering a ratchet with a rubber mallet to torque the nuts on the homogenizer when his little finger was struck by the hammer resulting in amputation of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object held or wielded by person
code_source: title: Other hammers, mallets
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high