Incident date: 2024-05-21
NAICS industry code: 623312

An employee was disposing of a toilet into the dumpster. The toilet caught on the dumpster, fell back, and shattered on the employee, resulting in a laceration to their left wrist that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Toilets, urinals
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate