Incident date: 2016-02-16
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was jacking up a floating roof in an above ground storage tank. The extension on the bottle jack slipped and struck the employee resulting in stitches to the ear and a concussion. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Jacks
code_nature: title: Concussions
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate