Incident date: 2020-01-22
NAICS industry code: 213112

Employees were at a dewatering line filling a tank on a subcontractor's truck when the tank pressurized and forced water from a hatch. The pressurized water made contact with two employees. One of the employees was hospitalized with head, back, face, and eye injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Pressurized water-blast
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate