Incident date: 2022-11-16
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was loading 55-pound ballast bricks into a space on a submarine with help from a co-worker. The co-worker passed a brick to the injured employee when it fell onto the employee's left ring finger, pinching it against a steel bin. The employee sustained a compound fracture of the left ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
code_source: title: Bricks and pavers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate