Incident date: 2019-09-08
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was raking slag while standing on a platform. A plug in the boiler came loose causing water and slag to eject at high pressure and strike the employee. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the back, a compression fracture to vertebrae, and a brain hematoma.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Pressurized water-blast
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate