Struck by discharged object or substance · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Groves Electrical Services, Inc., Beltway Rd 300 ft South of Beltline, ADDISON, TEXAS 75001
on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the knee(s).
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Final narrative
Employees were using a Hydrovac to find an underground line. The Hydrovac has a nozzle to shoot high pressure water and suck up water and mud. One employee works the vacuum hose and another works the water nozzle. The employee working the vacuum hose saw a rock that he didn't think would go up the vacuum hose. When he reached down to pick it up, he stepped in front of the water nozzle. The pressurized water punctured his knee on the inside of his right leg.
HospitalizedKnee(s)Pressurized water-blast
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