Incident date: 2024-07-10
NAICS industry code: 322110

An employee was changing the socks of a pressure filter on a white liquor filter. The metal washer tool the employee was using to remove the socks came loose from the crane and struck their face causing a fractured orbital bone and fractures to other smaller bones in their face.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cleaning handtools  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
severity: moderate