Incident date: 2018-04-12
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was disassembling a butterfly valve and using a ball-peen hammer to remove the seal insert when the hammer struck and amputated the employee's left pinky fingertip.

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