Incident date: 2016-09-06
NAICS industry code: 238220

On September 06, 2016, at approximately 5:10 AM, an employee was welding a window on a pipe of a boiler header when hot water and steam suddenly came out from an open pipe that was next to the other pipe, burning the employee's legs, torso, and arms. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors, liquids, ice, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate