Incident date: 2023-09-17
NAICS industry code: 325520

An employee was troubleshooting and turning a hand valve used to provide draining to the filter basket. Molten plastic discharged from the valve into a bucket and then ricocheted onto the employee's hands. The employee was hospitalized with thermal burns to three fingers on his right hand and one finger on his left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate