# Avulsions, enucleations at Brookfield Properties, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019065754` · 6/7/2019 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Cooling and humidifying machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Brookfield Properties, LLC
- **Location:** 1801 California Street, DENVER, COLORADO, 80202
- **NAICS:** 531312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a valve on a water chiller (storing several thousand gallons of water) for a high-rise building. A nozzle or pipe broke off, sending water under very high pressure out of the pipe. The force of the spray knocked the employee off of his feet and pinned him against the wall. His legs were subjected to water under high pressure for about two minutes.

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