Incident date: 2018-12-07
NAICS industry code: 311942

An employee was performing a routine check of the retainer system. He opened a valve to flush the solution back through the closed-loop system into the tank when a part of the valve failed. The heated solution struck the employee causing second degree burns to the right side of the torso and third degree burns to the right forearm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Liquids, unspecified
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate