Incident date: 2016-11-07
NAICS industry code: 336399

An employee was performing maintenance work on an injection molding machine, attempting to unclog a valve, when pressure that built up behind the valve caused it to release hot nylon. The nylon burned the employee's right hand, requiring overnight hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate