Incident date: 2023-08-30
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was clearing hot plastic waste product from a cooling bath with a hook and placing it onto the floor to be shoveled away for disposal. The employee lost his footing and fell into the hot plastic and water on the floor, resulting in second-degree burns on his right torso and leg, with suspected third-degree burns on parts of his leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level, unspecified
code_source: title: Floor, unspecified
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate