Incident date: 2022-04-18
NAICS industry code: 325180

An employee was working around a shallow pit of carbon black. The employee slipped on carbon black residue and lost his balance. To avoid falling face first into the pit, he jumped in. He was submerged waist deep, and the hot carbon black burned both his legs. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate