Incident date: 2025-02-07
NAICS industry code: 811198

An employee was working on a pickup truck. The employee was removing a U-joint with a hammer when a piece of metal from the U-joint got into their right eye causing injury and loss of vision. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Chips, pellets  metal
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate