Incident date: 2020-05-29
NAICS industry code: 331521

An employee was moving aluminum castings to be grinded when the end of a compressor tank blew off. Shrapnel from the explosion struck the employee, who was hospitalized with a head laceration and brain bleed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
code_source: title: Containers-pressurized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate