Incident date: 2017-05-17
NAICS industry code: 561330

A temporary employee was assigned to conduct a flow test inside the jet bubbling reactor during a scheduled outage. The employee entered the reactor, stepped into the flow of air and was pushed out of the doorway and against a guardrail system outside the doorway resulting in a broken tibia and fibula and contusions.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Guardrails, road dividers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate