Incident date: 2023-11-12
NAICS industry code: 441310

At the tube blazer machine area, an employee was repositioning a piece of 24-foot metal tube material. The employee was using a metal bar to push against the tube when the metal bar slipped off the tube and struck the right side of their jaw. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured jaw.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Other handtools-nonpowered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Jaw, chin
severity: moderate