Incident date: 2021-03-03
NAICS industry code: 332618

An employee was working inside a paint line washer. The employee was walking on a walkway when he slipped and his left leg fell into a wash tank containing 160-degree water. He suffered a third-degree burn from the knee down and was hospitalized, requiring skin graft surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Machine platforms
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple lower extremities locations, n.e.c.
severity: moderate