Incident date: 2023-12-16
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was cleaning leaking plastic from an injection nozzle. As the employee was lifting and dislodging plastic, the nozzle shifted and burst apart. The nozzle struck the employee's mouth and jaw and burned the employee. They also sustained a jaw fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, unspecified
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate