Incident date: 2022-05-04
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was removing a sheet of glass from a glass cutting machine's table and putting it onto a cart. The glass struck the cart and shattered, sending a shard of glass into the top portion of the employee's cut resistant sleeve on the left arm, causing a laceration to the forearm. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for an artery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object breaking in hand
code_source: title: Glass building materials
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate