Incident date: 2020-04-28
NAICS industry code: 331491

An employee was operating a continuous vulcanizing line, which extrudes rubber jacketing around a conductor cable and uses an indent printing process to label the cable. The indent printer housing had a steel cap on the side; the employee had just tightened this cap into place and was making adjustments on a panel when steam pressure ejected the cap into his abdomen. The cap knocked the wind out of him and he suffered first- and second-degree burns from the steam. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors-nonchemical
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate