Incident date: 2019-10-18
NAICS industry code: 441310

An employee was cutting an exhaust pipe when the metal blade shattered and a piece of it lodged in the employee's neck. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object breaking in hand
code_source: title: Hand grinders-powered
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate