Incident date: 2017-01-30
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was cleaning the inside of tank with a pressure washer and contacted his left foot with the pressurized water blast. It cut through the top of his safety shoe and caused a one inch cut to the left foot behind the big toe area.  The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Pressurized water-blast
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: moderate