Incident date: 2017-01-06
NAICS industry code: 924120

The injured employee was part of a two man team performing bird harassment at a landfill. The process required firing 12 gauge cracker shells to displace the birds. After a failed detonation, the injured employee proceeded to eject the miss-fired round. Immediately upon ejection, the miss-fired round denoted resulting in substantial injury to the employee's face and hand area. The employee was hospitalized and treated for the loss of his right eye plus a cheekbone fracture and a concussion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Ammunition
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: high