Incident date: 2024-12-05
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was using a compact hammer to nail down a rebar stake when his left index finger was crushed by the hammer. The employee was hospitalized and sustained a medical amputation to the finger bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object held or wielded by person
code_source: title: Other hammers, mallets
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high