Incident date: 2015-08-12
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was working from a ladder putting up the angle iron at the garage door of a new home when the angle iron fell and struck the hose used for the spray painting operation performed by a different contractor on site. The employee came down off the ladder and attempted to stop the leaking paint which resulted in a laceration and latex paint being injected into his hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Paint
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate