Incident date: 2020-07-07
NAICS industry code: 484220

An employee was doing maintenance work on a commercial trailer's airbag system. An airbag exploded and sent metal fragments into the employee's abdomen. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate