Incident date: 2016-06-21
NAICS industry code: 332510

An employee was trying to unjam a drive shaft on a vacuum pump with a pipe wrench. The drive shaft unjammed, causing the pipe wrench that was still on the drive shaft to spin and strike the employee in the head and eye socket area. The employee suffered a head laceration and a skull and eye socket fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Wrenches-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate