Incident date: 2018-01-12
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was heating thermoplastic to open a pipe when the hot thermoplastic came through the joints and burned the employee, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate