Incident date: 2024-01-04
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was using a grinder to grind the hitch of a truck. The grinding disc got caught and exploded. Pieces of the disc struck the employee above their left eyelid causing a laceration to left eye, nose, and eye lid that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Chips, pellets  metal
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
severity: moderate