Incident date: 2020-04-16
NAICS industry code: 325311

An employee was unclogging the steam line for a lawn mixer. The steam line was not locked out and the steam line valve was not turned off at the time. When the line was unclogged, steam was released, and the employee sustained second degree burns on both arms and hands.

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: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate