Incident date: 2020-11-05
NAICS industry code: 541712

A chemist was handling energetic material in a laboratory when it exploded. The employee suffered a broken right arm and wrist, an injury to the right eye, and metal shrapnel embedded throughout the body. The employee's right hand was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Hand(s), n.e.c.
severity: high