Incident date: 2022-07-19
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was preparing to scope a project. He stepped into a 2-foot-deep excavation containing rain water that had been heated through contact with hot pipes. He suffered burns to both lower legs and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Water
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate