Incident date: 2023-12-08
NAICS industry code: 423320

An employee was operating recycling equipment at the site's concrete recycling plant. As they were removing steel cable from a piece of concrete that was being processed for recycling, the steel cable pulled free and contacted the employee's face. They sustained a face laceration and a cheekbone fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Scrap metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Cheek(s)
severity: moderate