Incident date: 2021-11-08
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was connecting a pipe on a machine. The product line was not capped before being switched and hot water (200 degrees F) sprayed onto the employee, resulting in second degree burns to their arms and legs that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Water
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate