Incident date: 2019-11-22
NAICS industry code: 333120

An employee was using a hammer to strike equipment numbers onto buckets. The hammer head separated from the hammer and struck the employee's left ring finger. The finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object breaking in hand
code_source: title: Striking and nailing handtools-nonpowered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high