Incident date: 2022-07-31
NAICS industry code: 325611

An employee was performing maintenance to a clogged 10-inch water line on the sixth floor of a building. The employee poured hot water in the line and then went down to the second floor to open the line. When the employee opened the line, hot water caused second degree burns to his right arm and back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Water
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate