Incident date: 2015-10-31
NAICS industry code: 332111

An employee was using an oxygen acetylene torch to cut a metal side plate/panel, that had been removed from a machine.  As the employee was cutting the metal, a part of the plate broke free from the cutting operation and fell onto the employee's left lower leg fracturing it. The employee was hospitalized for surgery on the lower left leg as a result of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Metal plates, metal panels
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate