Incident date: 2021-05-27
NAICS industry code: 453310

An employee was unloading a cart of unsellable merchandise into a trash compactor. He lifted a broken picture frame and was impaled by a protruding shard of glass. The employee was hospitalized with a cut artery and a suspected tear to the liver.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Trash, garbage
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate