Incident date: 2024-02-14
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was removing teeth from a trackhoe bucket with a hammer. A piece of a tooth sheared off and punctured his stomach. He was hospitalized and underwent surgery to remove the piece.

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: Abdomen  unspecified
severity: moderate