Incident date: 2025-03-25
NAICS industry code: 486990

An employee was using a ballpeen hammer to hit a metal stud. A metal shard broke off from the stud and hit the employee's left eye. The employee was hospitalized for surgery, but did not lose their eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Chips, pellets  metal
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate