Incident date: 2019-10-04
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was attempting to break a concrete privacy fence panel with a sledgehammer when he swung back and hit himself on the right cheek with the sledgehammer, suffering a facial contusion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Sledges, sledgehammers
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate