Incident date: 2017-03-10
NAICS industry code: 336611

The employee was refilling the abrasive media in the blast pot. After filling the blast pot, the injured employee was brushing the loose blast media on top of the blast pot into the material opening when the employee's left hand was pinched by the blast pot actuator injecting abrasive blast media and possibly air into the employee's hand and fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate