Incident date: 2018-06-06
NAICS industry code: 332322

A piece of sheet metal was hanging from a dumpster and an employee attempted to flip the metal into the container. As he did, the metal caught his right wrist causing a laceration that required hospitalization for surgery to repair a nicked artery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by thrown object-unintentional injury
code_source: title: Sheet metal
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate