Incident date: 2019-03-14
NAICS industry code: 484121

The injured employee was positioning wooden chock blocks/boards for leveling a piece of equipment. Another employee tossed a board towards the board the injured employee was holding. It struck the board the injured employee was holding and smashed the tip of the employee's right ring finger. The employee suffered an open fracture and avulsion and underwent a medical amputation of about 1/2 inch off the tip of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by thrown object-unintentional injury
code_source: title: Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high