Incident date: 2022-05-05
NAICS industry code: 324110

An employee was helping purge a product line with nitrogen. A piece of solidified plastic came out of the product pipeline at the open flange end and impaled the employee's hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate