Incident date: 2016-10-12
NAICS industry code: 423510

On 10/12/2016, an employee was squaring up steel with a sledgehammer to cut it with a saw. While he was swinging the sledgehammer, the head of the hammer missed the steel and instead smashed his right index finger between the hammer handle and the steel, lacerating and fracturing his fingertip. His fingertip had to be amputated.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high