Incident date: 2015-10-23
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was using a hoist to lift a steel lid for a concrete septic tank. The hook slipped out of the chain hoist and struck the employee in the eye resulting in the loss of the eye and a fractured eye socket.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: high