Incident date: 2019-11-12
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was using a knife to remove a solid gasket that was attached to the manway of an oil/gas/water separator. A vacuum on the separator was being used to draw the remaining contents out of the bottom of the tank to a vacuum truck. The vacuum pulled the employee forward, causing a traumatic head injury, an injury to a neck vertebra, several damaged/broken ribs, and a collapsed lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate