Incident date: 2020-05-20
NAICS industry code: 454319

An employee was power-washing a concrete drive. Water from the high-pressure power washer tore through his clothes and cut deeply into the skin, muscle, and ligaments of his leg and knee. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Pressurized water-blast
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Knee(s) and leg(s)
severity: moderate