Incident date: 2023-12-26
NAICS industry code: 452210

An employee was pulling products from a shelf and placing them in blue bins that were on carts. As the employee bent over to grab products, her face contacted the cart, resulting in orbital socket surgery due to damage to her prosthetic eye. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate