Incident date: 2017-05-15
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was helping to sandblast an underground pipe with a hose and sandblasting wand when the wand pointed at his arm and released sandblasting material under high pressure. He suffered a serious arm abrasion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Abrasions, scratches
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate