Incident date: 2019-07-13
NAICS industry code: 562910

An employee was pressure washing an excavator. The pressure washer hose became tangled. When the employee went to untangle the hose she was hit by high pressure water. The employee was hospitalized with a puncture wound and burn to the left calf.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Pressurized water-blast
code_nature: title: Burns and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate