Incident date: 2019-01-09
NAICS industry code: 562213

An employee was using a 10-foot water lance to clean the ash off of a wet sifting conveyor located underneath an incinerator when the lance made contact with hot ash, causing the hot ash to make contact with his face. He sustained first and second degree burns to his face, neck, arms, and hands, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate