Incident date: 2016-11-16
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was installing a pin in a boom point that had been chilled in liquid oxygen. When the employee removed the pin with a slide hammer, an ignition occurred and caused the pin to shoot out of the hole and to strike the employee. The employee suffered burns to both hands and a broken thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures and burns
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate