Incident date: 2015-09-27
NAICS industry code: 424810

At approximately 3:45 a.m., on 9/27/2015, an employee working on a bottling line was preparing to do some cleaning. The employee filled a hand sprayer with cleaning product and pumped the sprayer up. The sprayer exploded, causing a severe injury to his hand, as well as minor lacerations to his face and legs. The hand injury required surgery and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
code_source: title: Containers-pressurized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate