Incident date: 2019-06-24
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was sandblasting a steel bridge beam when he tripped on a beam behind him and fell with the sandblaster in hand. The sandblaster's deadman switch was tripped, but a residual amount of media made contact with and abraded the employee's torso area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
code_source: title: Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Abrasions, scratches
code_body: title: Trunk, unspecified
severity: moderate