Incident date: 2025-07-22
NAICS industry code: 326150

On July 22, 2025, an employee was cutting/torching a large piece of metal when a piece of the material broke loose, struck him mid-stomach, and knocked him to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with an umbilical hernia and fractures to his right femur and left fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Scrap metal
code_nature: title: Fractures and soft tissue injuries
code_body: title: Trunk and other lower extremities
severity: moderate