Incident date: 2022-02-16
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was operating a dryer on a salad line. A portion of the bottom plate inside the dryer fractured and exited the dryer through a maintenance door. That piece of metal impaled the employee's lower left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Scrap metal
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate