Incident date: 2025-08-20
NAICS industry code: 331492

An employee was monitoring a conveyor at the operator station. A piece of metal was fed to a conveyor system and it struck another piece of metal, causing a piece of titanium (1-inch-long and 1/2-inch-wide) to break off and strike the employee in their upper chest below the clavicle. The employee was hospitalized and the embedded piece of metal was surgically removed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Scrap metal
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Chest  unspecified
severity: moderate