Incident date: 2023-08-09
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was working from inside a bucket and was guiding electrical wire when a steam line blew hot steam onto the employee from 10 feet above. The employee was hospitalized with first- and second-degree burns to both forearms and the right knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors-nonchemical
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate