Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 143156.015 - Employee Loses Eye Disassembling Shear Attachment

**Accident: 143156.015 -- Report ID: 0418100 -- Event Date: 01/10/2022**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1574853.015	01/27/2022		Scrap Metal Processors

At 10:15 a.m. on January 10, 2022, an employee was disassembling a shear attachm ent from an excavator using a metal hammer. As the employee struck the attachmen t a piece of metal separated from the shear and struck the employee's left eye. The employee was not wearing his employer-issued safety goggles. The employee w as hospitalized to treat loss of his left eye.

Keywords: blunt force, blunt force trauma, excavator, eye, hammer , metal strip, projectile, shear, struck against, struck by

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1574853.015	19	M	Hospitalized injury		Laborers, except construction

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