Incident date: 2025-05-29
NAICS industry code: 332812

The injured employee was helping a co-worker secure finishing material to a pallet using steel strapping (5/8" wide, 0.20" thick). The co-worker went to hand the strapping to the injured employee when they bent down and their right eye contacted the steel strapping, resulting in a laceration to the cornea and injury to the retina.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object while rising, lowering
code_source: title: Strapping, bands
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate