Incident date: 2022-06-03
NAICS industry code: 111421

An employee was emptying a plastic bucket of soils around a newly planted tree using a hay hook to assist. The hay hook suddenly broke free of the plastic bucket and struck the employee in the right eye, resulting in blunt-force trauma injuries to their eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged or flying object, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate