Incident date: 2017-07-27
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was chipping asphalt in a dump truck. The employee tossed the spud bar from the truck and caught his right index finger between the spud bar and the truck body resulting in amputation of the first digit.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Digging handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high