Incident date: 2017-09-15
NAICS industry code: 326199

On September 15, 2017, an employee and a coworker were changing an extruder blade. After changing the blade, they purged the machine, which released hot water/steam that burned the employee's arms.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors-nonchemical
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate