Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Attendant Current
Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness / Injury
General Physical Injury / Incapacitation
Equipment / Tooling
Seated in 4L outboard jumpseat during ascent to level flight at cruise altitude. Dry ice packet placed on top of meal cart; directly across from jumpseat and at eye level; exploded sending fragments of dry ice into my right eye.
Flight Attendant at jump seat position was struck with shards of dry ice from bag exploding.