Incident date: 2017-01-04
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was removing the safety barricade in front of a cap on a 24-inch PVC pipe after pressure testing when the cap became over-pressurized and blew off the pipe, striking him and knocking him against the wall and to the ground. He suffered a fracture to the left side of his skull near the ear and a sprained right knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Container caps, lids, covers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate