Incident date: 2016-12-06
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was on top of a mobile tank trailer, removing the loading arm apparatus that was used to load the trailer with molten sulfur. The bucket he used to dispense the sulfur then began to fall into the open hatch of the trailer. When he tried to catch it, his hand became submerged in the top surface of the molten sulfur, suffering second degree burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate