Incident date: 2023-01-27
NAICS industry code: 336390

An employee had just finished connecting a chain and hook to a steel mold D-ring in order to remove the mold from a plastic injection molding machine. As the employee was adding tension to the chain, the D-ring snapped, causing the hook to strike the employee. They sustained lacerations to the head and nose, as well as fractures to the nose, forehead and right cheek bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Chains, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate