Incident date: 2019-07-07
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was operating a plastic extrusion line. The employee was using a hand tool to scrape excess plastic from the end of the line when a pocket of hot gas and plastic erupted and burned the employee's hands and forearm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate