Incident date: 2018-02-21
NAICS industry code: 331523

An employee was attempting to drive out an insert in a die with a sledge hammer. He missed the insert while swinging the sledge hammer, and his left index finger was then caught between the sledge hammer handle and die, suffering a fracture and partial 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