Incident date: 2024-09-19
NAICS industry code: 333249

An employee was behind an upright shield guard. He was raking 12-foot-long U-channel bars into a pile as they were kicked off a gauge table. In between kickoffs, the employee stepped to the side to approach the pile. The next set of bars were contacted by the kickers at the same time the gauge came down on the bars. This caused a bar to fly toward the employee instead of falling. The employee was struck on the bridge of the nose, resulting in a laceration and a fracture requiring surgery. A guard was in place at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Nose, nasal cavity
severity: moderate