Incident date: 2020-06-16
NAICS industry code: 811111

An employee was performing a tire exchange service. During the air up process on the rim clamp tire equipment, the tire sidewall failed/exploded, causing the rim and tire assembly to strike the employee in the left arm/wrist area. The employee was hospitalized with left arm injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
code_source: title: Tires, except bike
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate