Incident date: 2016-01-07
NAICS industry code: 322121

A maintenance employee was using a pipe wrench to unstick a machine shaft when his hand or the wrench slipped off the shaft as he put his weight down. He then fell onto the wrench, which contacted his right orbital. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Floor, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate