Incident date: 2024-05-17
NAICS industry code: 423850

An employee was utilizing automated equipment to flex-lance a vertical evaporator and sustained a cut to the inner right foot/ankle from pressurized water that exited the pneumatic dump valve.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Pressurized water blast
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
severity: moderate