Incident date: 2022-04-03
NAICS industry code: 541330

A crew of Fluor Maintenance Services employees was replacing an expansion joint in an I/O box at a power plant. One of the employees was using a grinder to prepare metal to install and weld the joint when steam entered the work area and burned his back. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors, liquids, ice, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate