Incident date: 2019-02-11
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was pulling two sheets of plastic together with his hands. He was holding a nail in his right hand which he was going to use to stitch the sheets together. His right hand slipped off the plastic and traveled toward his face and the nail struck his right eye. The employee sustained an eye injury requiring hospitalization. The employee was wearing safety glasses at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Nails, brads, tacks, nuts, bolts, washers
code_nature: title: Open wounds, unspecified
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate