Incident date: 2025-08-23
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was working to pull and inspect a plunger. While working to move the bumper spring further up for retrieval using gas pressure, the bumper spring ejected forcefully into the air, falling back down, and striking the employee on the back of the hard hat. The employee sustained a brain bleed and concussion, and fractures to their neck/cervical spine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Springs, coils
code_nature: title: Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries
code_body: title: Head and neck
severity: moderate