Incident date: 2022-06-13
NAICS industry code: 336390

An employee was operating an injection molding machine that became clogged. While attempting to unclog the machine by removing the sprue, hot melted plastic came out onto the employee's hands and burned them.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate