Incident date: 2025-05-02
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was carrying a piece of steel plate (25 pounds, 2' x 4' x 1/8") when it slipped and lacerated his arm. The employee was hospitalized with a 10-inch laceration to his right forearm including injuries to tendons and an artery and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Panels, sheets, plates  metal
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate