Incident date: 2024-08-30
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was replacing a slip sleeve under an electrical meter. He was dislodging old conduit when his demolition screwdriver got stuck in the cut. When he freed the screwdriver, it snapped out of his hands and its head struck his left eye, breaking through his safety glasses. He suffered optical nerve damage that caused him to lose all function in the eye. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object held or wielded by person
code_source: title: Screwdrivers
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate