Incident date: 2024-08-07
NAICS industry code: 333415

The injured employee was bending sheet metal on a brake press while fabricating components for an HVAC system. The injured employee and a co-worker were holding a 9-foot x 4.5-foot piece of steel and turning it to make another bend when the sheet slipped. As it dropped, the sheet of steel caused a severe laceration to the injured employee's left wrist and cut a tendon.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Panels, sheets, plates  metal
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate