Incident date: 2018-07-24
NAICS industry code: 115210

An employee was cleaning using a hot water pressure washer. The safety switch on the pressure washer failed causing a release of steam that burned the employee's right arm near the elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors-nonchemical
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate