Incident date: 2019-12-31
NAICS industry code: 325211

A braided stainless steel hose (about 1 inch in diameter by 1 foot long) between fixed piping and the discharge side of a compressor on an odorant delivery truck ruptured. Debris from the ruptured hose struck a Chevron Phillips employee on the left side of the face. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing eye surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate