Incident date: 2017-10-20
NAICS industry code: 424810

An employee was holding a pressure washer in his right hand and a drain tube in his left. The drain tube had a small hole in it. When the employee blew water into the drain tube, high-pressure water came out of the hole and lacerated his left hand between the middle and ring fingers. He was hospitalized.

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: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate