Incident date: 2022-07-26
NAICS industry code: 336390

At 12:45 a.m. on July 26, 2022, an employee was trying to connect an air line to a port behind a vacuum press. A water hose that supplied 190-degree water to the press ruptured at a point about 2 1/2 feet off the floor. It sprayed hot water on the employee, knocking him down and causing second-degree burns from his lower torso down to just below his knees.

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