Incident date: 2022-01-28
NAICS industry code: 623110

An employee was using a manual hydraulic lift to transfer a program participant into a wheelchair, and the battery needed replacing. When the employee engaged the replacement battery, the battery failed, and the employee suffered thermal and chemical burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Batteries other than automotive
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate