Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170380406 - Employee's Eye Injured When Struck by Cut Trellis Wire

Accident Summary Nr: 170380406 -- Report ID: 0950615 -- Event Date: 04/18/1995
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
120291448	04/20/1995	0172	0	Domaine Chandon

Abstract: Employee #1 and a coworker were cutting 10-gauge steel trellis wire and stringing it on steel vineyard trellis stakes in a new vineyard that had been planted the previous year. The coworker was holding the wire, bent at 180 degrees, around a 2.5-in.-diameter steel ground post to get a measurement; Employee #1 was standing in front of the wire to cut it with 18- to 24-in. bolt cutters. As he made the cut, the end of the cut wire recoiled, flew up and struck him in the right eye. Employee #1 was not wearing eye protection, nor was there any attempt to restrain the cut end to prevent recoil.

Keywords: EYE, METAL WIRE, PPE, UNSECURED, AGRICULTURE, WORK RULES, STRUCK BY, FLYING OBJECT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	120291448			Hospitalized injury	Foreign Body Ineye	Farm workers

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