Incident date: 2019-06-20
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was installing an air conditioner at a customer's home. He was using a set of needle-nose pliers. The pliers slipped off from the object they were grasping and the employee's fist hit his left eye. He sustained a laceration to the globe of the left eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Pliers, tongs
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate