Incident date: 2019-07-30
NAICS industry code: 322211

On July 30, 2019, an employee was scraping varnish away from a blade with a chisel. The chisel slipped off the blade and the employee sustained a tissue amputation to the right index finger that required sutures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Chisels-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high