Incident date: 2018-07-07
NAICS industry code: 238320

An employee was sandblasting walls. As the employee reached to sand blast a spot, the ladder became unbalanced. The employee fell and the blast stream contacted his left hand and wrist causing abrasions requiring a skin graft and nerve damage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Sand, gravel
code_nature: title: Abrasions, scratches
code_body: title: Hand(s) and wrist(s)
severity: moderate