Incident date: 2016-09-21
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was drilling a hole through an overhead bar joist. The bit broke suddenly and the employee lost control of the hand-held drill. The unused portion of the drill bit went around his safety glasses and penetrated the eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Drills-powered
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate