Incident date: 2025-01-02
NAICS industry code: 423930

On January 2, 2025, an employee was adding air to a water system when the PVC manifold broke. A fragment of PVC struck the employee in the face and they were hospitalized with a laceration to their chin and jaw.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Jaw, chin
severity: moderate