Incident date: 2015-10-08
NAICS industry code: 541620

An employee was manually setting a post driver on the ground and caught their right index finger between the post driver and the hammer resulting in amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Digging handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high