Incident date: 2021-05-26
NAICS industry code: 236220

Two employees carried a piece of glass that had been on a conference room table to the dumpster. The glass was roughly 8 feet by 3 feet. As the employees got ready to put the glass into the dumpster, the glass shattered, causing a severe laceration to the right forearm of one of the employees. The laceration required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object breaking in hand
code_source: title: Glass building materials
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate