Incident date: 2016-04-13
NAICS industry code: 311999

On or about April 13, 2016, an employee was cleaning off a machine with a compressed air hose when she lost control of the hose's coupler end. The air hose end whipped up and struck her in the eye, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Hoses
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate