Incident date: 2018-10-18
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was repairing a front rubber bumper on a vessel when the rubber bumper came loose, striking the scaffold the employee was standing on. The employee fell approximately 6 feet to the ground with a torch in hand and was burned on the left upper thigh and upper left neck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Welding, cutting, and blow torches
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate