Incident date: 2015-05-26
NAICS industry code: 623311

A housekeeping employee received an eye injury while mopping the floors.  The employee had placed the mop in the bucket and turned away.  While the employee was turning back around to get the mop, the handle slipped from its original position and struck the employee in the eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Brooms, mops, and other cleaning tools
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate