Incident date: 2018-02-27
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was spraying paint with an airless sprayer (3,000 psi) when the spray stream struck his left middle finger, breaking the skin and injecting paint into his finger. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Paint
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate