Incident date: 2023-10-17
NAICS industry code: 562910

An employee was using a vacuum pump and a 2-inch hose on a tanker truck to unload hot oil from a tank located inside a customer's facility. The hose became clogged and kicked up and out of the tank hatch, spraying the employee with hot oil. The employee suffered second-degree burns to their abdomen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Coal, natural gas, petroleum fuels and products, unspecified
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate