Incident date: 2018-12-18
NAICS industry code: 325998

An employee was operating a tooling center machine behind a barricade inside of a building when an explosion of unknown source occurred. The explosion blew the front of the barricade inward, forcing the employee backward and pinning him to the floor. The employee sustained multiple traumas and both legs were broken.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate