Incident date: 2018-08-07
NAICS industry code: 922140

An employee was putting away a pallet consisting of 16 cases of canned carrots in a warehouse. While unpacking the pallet of canned carrots, the employee lifted a case off the second to last row and a can of carrots from the bottom row exploded upward, striking the employee's face. The employee suffered facial lacerations, a left nasal bone fracture, a left orbital floor fracture, a soft tissue hernia in the maxillary sinus, left lateral rectus swelling, and loose teeth, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cans
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate