Incident date: 2023-05-18
NAICS industry code: 334511

An employee was utilizing a bucking bar during the installation of rivets on an aircraft skin. A portion of the rivet stem broke, causing metal fragments from the rivet to strike the employee in the left eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Metal chips, particles
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate