Incident date: 2017-10-05
NAICS industry code: 333611

An employee was using a pneumatic rivet gun to insert rivets into pre-drilled holes when metal shavings/fragments were blown into the employee's right eye, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Metal chips, particles
code_nature: title: Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate