Incident date: 2018-12-11
NAICS industry code: 424510

A maintenance employee was hospitalized after a brake on a horizontal grain conveyor ruptured and projected a metal shard into his left upper leg.

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