Incident date: 2022-05-27
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was using two rod wrenches to tighten a stand of rods as they were placed back down a hole. While wrenching the rods, the employee went to tighten the rod boxes. The employee lost grip on the wrenches and their left little finger was caught between the wrench handles resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Wrenches-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high