Incident date: 2025-04-01
NAICS industry code: 332111

An employee was using a 6,000-pound forging hammer to make flanges. They placed the metal on top of a flange die and started to hit the red-hot metal with the ram. During the hammering action, a shard of hot metal broke off the part being worked and punctured the employee's abdomen. The employee required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Molten metal, slag
code_nature: title: Open wounds involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Abdomen  unspecified
severity: moderate