Incident date: 2018-11-12
NAICS industry code: 811310

At about 9:00 a.m. on November 12, 2018, an employee was testing a 6000 HP electric motor.  A piece of metal came off the motor and struck the right side of the employee's face, causing multiple head and face fractures. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Metal chips, particles
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate