Incident date: 2024-10-18
NAICS industry code: 334515

An employee was performing maintenance and replacing a seal under a plexiglass viewing cylinder in a pre-expander machine. As the employee was testing the machine before putting it back into service, the viewing cylinder exploded and the employee sustained lacerations to their chest, face, right arm and hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
code_source: title: Hydraulic and pressurized cylinders
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
severity: moderate