Incident date: 2016-06-21
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was repairing a pipeline at a residential home. The employee took the pipe apart and was handling the pipe and fittings when contaminated debris from within the pipeline contacted the back of his hand. He suffered skin irritation to his left hand that became infected and swollen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, unspecified
code_nature: title: Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate