Incident date: 2024-08-23
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was assisting in pouring a concrete residential slab. They stepped backward, slipped on some dirt and fell backward. The employee's hand went behind their head and their thumb was crushed between a rock on the ground and their hard hat. A portion of the employee's thumb tip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slip or trip
code_source: title: Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high