Cuts, lacerations

Name: Cuts, lacerations at MPW Industrial Services
Start: 8/3/2016

1 hospitalization · 2016087189 · 8/3/2016 · MPW Industrial Services

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Cuts, lacerations

Cause

Event: Struck by discharged object or substance
Source: Water
Secondary source: Power washers

Employer

Name: MPW Industrial Services
Location: US Steel Clairton Coke Battery Plant, CLAIRTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 15025
NAICS: 238990
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a high-pressure water line (6,000 psi) lance to clean out a tar line when the lance kicked back and lacerated his neck and upper chest. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown