OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #779728
RENO DISPOSAL
RENO, NV·
Event description
Employee injured when struck by exploding tire and rim
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 attempted to mount the wrong size tire on a wheel by overinflating i t above 60 psi. The tire exploded and struck Employee #1.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 37 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- ARM-MULT (2)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- AIR PRESSURE (2)
- Occupation
- Garage and service station related occupations (885)
- Human factor
- MATER-HANDLG PROCED. INAPPROPR (11)
- Environmental factor
- OVERPRESSURE/UNDERPRESSURE (15)
- Hazardous substance
- 8420
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.