Fractures

Name: Fractures at Good People Brewing Company
Start: 5/31/2018

1 hospitalization · 2018055308 · 5/31/2018 · Good People Brewing Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Hand(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
Source: Valves, nozzles
Secondary source: Oxygen tanks and cylinders

Employer

Name: Good People Brewing Company
Location: 114 14th Street South, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35233
NAICS: 312120
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee changed the regulator on an oxygen cylinder from an empty bottle to full. When the employee opened the gate valve to supply the oxygen, an ignition occurred and the gate valve ejected from the bottle, striking the employee. The employee suffered a fracture and laceration to the right hand and a contusion to the sternum.

Source

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