Incident date: 2015-07-13
NAICS industry code: 562910

An employee was water blasting inside the economizer on tubes with a gun at water pressures of 3000-8000 psi when the control to the gun broke. The employee lost control of the gun and the water pressure struck the employee's inner left thigh, causing severe lacerations.

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: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate