Incident date: 2024-06-24
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee acting in the capacity of a pile driver was greasing a pile driving hammer that was on the ground while in a blind spot of the crane operator. The hammer was raised and pinched the injured pile driver's left hand between the sidewall of the hammer and the grease gun in the piling leads, resulting in amputation of the middle fingertip through the nailbed and a fractured ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Pile drivers, tamping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high