Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221442999

CAPITAL CAR CARE, LLC

Event
Eye, Eye protection, Flying Object, Inflating, Struck By, Tire, Wheel Exploded
NAICS
441320
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345712871
Employer profile
CAPITAL CAR CARE, LLC
Summary number
221442999
Report ID
0419400

Event description

Employee injures eye while filling wheelbarrow tire with air

Investigation abstract

At 10:15 a.m. on November 20, 2021, an employee was allegedly inflating a wheelbarrow tire using an air nozzle not designed for wheelbarrow tires. The tire blew up, and a part of it struck the employee in the eye. The employee lost his eye and was hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 42 M

    Event type
    6
    Occupation code
    505

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