Incident date: 2021-09-12
NAICS industry code: 488410

An employee was changing the tire of a semi-trailer for a customer. He replaced the tire on the rim and started putting air into it when the tire exploded and he fell down a ravine and hit his head. He was knocked unconscious and was hospitalized for head trauma and cerebral bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
code_source: title: Tires, except bike
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate