Incident date: 2017-09-18
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was working on a concrete jail cell when a steel wedge came loose and struck his right thumb, amputating it to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high