Incident date: 2025-07-20
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was using a sledgehammer at a drilling location. The employee's finger was crushed between the hammer handle and a pad eye. The employee was transported to the hospital and the tip of their left index finger was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object held or wielded by person
code_source: title: Sledges, sledgehammers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high