Incident date: 2018-09-14
NAICS industry code: 561210

An employee was cleaning a filter basket with a 40,000 PSI pressure washer when the water gun rotated towards the employee and the pressurized water blast lacerated his right arm. The employee was hospitalized and the arm was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Pressurized water-blast
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: high