Incident date: 2018-05-11
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was hydro blasting a vertical pipe with a lancer to unclog the pipe.  When the material that was clogging the pipe broke free, it knocked the lancer out of the pipe. The employee was then hit on the left arm by the lancer water pressure, suffering a laceration.

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: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate