Incident date: 2022-08-03
NAICS industry code: 325520

An employee was replacing a temperature gauge on a discharge header from a tank in a hot melt manufacturing building. As he was removing the gauge, hot adhesive discharged from the threaded port piping and caused second- and third-degree burns on the top side of his right arm from the elbow to the wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Adhesives, glues, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Wrist(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate