Incident date: 2024-01-17
NAICS industry code: 532490

An employee was working on an excavator track. He was heating a part when hardened grease particulate struck his face, causing his face to contact the bottom side of the moving track. The employee suffered injuries to his eye, nose, and cheek that included lacerations and multiple broken facial bones that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Excavators
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ears and facial region  unspecified
severity: moderate