Incident date: 2016-01-21
NAICS industry code: 334510

An employee was assembling medical ophthalmoscopes using a hand-held torque driver when the torque driver slipped off of the work piece and punctured the employee's left hand. The employee was hospitalized when the wound became infected.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Turning handtools-powered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate