Incident date: 2018-08-28
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was opening a wooden crate with a rubber-handled claw hammer when his hands slipped off the hammer handle and the rubber end of the hammer struck his face. He suffered a left cheek laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Hammers, except sledge-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Cheek(s)
severity: moderate