Incident date: 2017-04-04
NAICS industry code: 332510

An employee was assisting an operator with plasma cutting when a metal splinter went through the employee's glove and into his right thumb. The employee was hospitalized for an infection.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Chips, particles, splinters, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate