Incident date: 2024-07-17
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was rotating a vibratory hammer to extract steel sheeting when his right ring and little fingers got pinched between the hammer and a stationary pipe that was coming up out of the ground next to the steel sheeting. The employee suffered a crush injury to his ring and little fingers as well as a partial amputation of the ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Pile drivers, tamping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high