Incident date: 2023-07-13
NAICS industry code: 311211

An employee was using a water hose to clean the outside of a wastewater drain system when he fell into an area of the drain that was not covered. Hot water and chemicals caused first, second, and third-degree burns all over the employee's body. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Confined spaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Whole body
severity: moderate