Q: An employee got a piece of metal in his eye and he was taken to the emergency room to remove it and was given a one-time use nonprescription eye drops. He later returned to work the same day. Is this an recordable injury?
A: Yes it is because removing splinters or foreign material from the eye is not covered under “first aid”, but because he returned to work the same day it is not a loss of work day incident.
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