Incident date: 2017-03-31
NAICS industry code: 326160

An employee was manually lifting individual pieces of scrap metal and throwing them into a metal bin when he was struck in the right eye by a metal rod that was ejected from the bin. He was wearing gloves and eye protection at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Scrap metal
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate