Incident date: 2015-02-03
NAICS industry code: 221121

At approximately 8 PM, 2/3/2015, a worker was struck by a hand-hole cover, sustaining unspecified injuries to the head/face.  He was part of an Underground Trouble team assigned to investigate a manhole explosion/no power condition. The initial report is that he was in the process of tapping the cover with a hammer to loosen it when the cover was blown up into his head/face.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Manhole and cistern covers
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate