Indian national Palraj Duraiarasan, 28, was injured at a Yishun work site on Jan 15, 2016, when metal debris from the tip of a large nail he was hitting into a concrete block flew off and hit his right eye through a gap in the goggles he was wearing.
Although he said he told his supervisor as soon as he could, he went to a doctor only four days later.
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