Incident date: 2016-03-18
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was performing sanitation work when he entered the picking room.  There was fog in the room. The employee stumbled and entered a flow of steam from water that was draining out of the scalder tank. He suffered severe burns on his left leg, ankle, and foot, requiring overnight hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Water
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple lower extremities locations, n.e.c.
severity: moderate