Incident date: 2016-03-11
NAICS industry code: 311822

While performing a troubleshooting task on a folding ladder, an employee braced one foot on the kettle lid. The lid slipped off and fell inside the kettle, which was full of 250-degree melted flakes, causing the employee's leg to fall inside the hot solution. The employee suffered second degree burns to the left foot and lower leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Food products, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate