Incident date: 2016-11-08
NAICS industry code: 541614

An employee was using a pickaxe to poke and break up clumps of material inside a hopper when the spike end of the pickaxe was caught by a rotating auger in the hopper, causing the other end of the axe to strike and scrape the employee's face. He sustained a severe injury to the right side of his face. His lip was severely traumatized and lacerated, his facial skin was ripped and peeled, and his cheekbone broke.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Picks
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate