Incident date: 2025-03-17
NAICS industry code: 237130

On 3/17/2025, at 10:10 AM, two power poles were being framed at the same time on the back of a trailer. The injured employee reached to the other side of his pole to hold a nut for a bolt that was being pushed through. The employee on the other pole was drilling through his pole. The drill bit pushed through and contacted the injured employee's left little finger. The drill bit punctured the fingernail, causing a laceration and fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Drills, braces, drivers
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: moderate