Incident date: 2025-03-10
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was tightening a set screw with a wrench when a shard of metal was dislodged from the screw. It bounced off his forehead, passed behind his safety glasses, and lacerated the white of his eye.

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