Incident date: 2018-03-23
NAICS industry code: 237310

Two employees were sitting on a beam facing each other and protected from falling. They were working to drive barrel pins for a field splice. Employee 1 was using an 8 lb. sledgehammer to drive a pin, but missed the pin and hit a spud wrench that was sitting on the splice. The wrench was propelled upward and struck employee 2 in the face, causing nasal and facial fractures that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged or flying object, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Wrenches-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate