Incident date: 2018-04-14
NAICS industry code: 325211

Employee #1 was shutting down the system where molten resin goes through a filter prior to being cooled and processed on the belt. The employee tried to clean the material from the filter using nitrogen. The O-ring on the filter failed, allowing hot molten resin to spray out. The employee moved away from the area thinking that the pressure was relieved from the filter. When he returned with another employee, more molten resin sprayed out, burning both employees.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Resins
code_nature: title: Burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low