Incident date: 2019-10-29
NAICS industry code: 331222

An employee was spooling wire coming off a wire draw machine when the end of a piece of fence wire struck the employee's eye. The employee suffered an eye injury requiring stitches. Safety glasses were not worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Wire, cables-nonelectrical
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate