Incident date: 2022-04-25
NAICS industry code: 336111

An employee was carrying a sport utility vehicle hatch to place it into a parts basket. The hatch struck a handwork table and slipped out of employee's hands, striking the bill of the employee's PPE hat and then the employee's nose. Part of the nose was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: high