Incident date: 2019-08-11
NAICS industry code: 488210

An employee was loading sand from a commercial vehicle into a locomotive. When the door of the sand tank was opened, the pressure caused it to strike the employee in the face, causing lacerations and a fracture to the left side of the face.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Vehicle, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate