Incident date: 2023-05-23
NAICS industry code: 311991

An employee was servicing an exhaust fan in the tree wash cabinet. He had one foot on the pump motor and the other foot on a raised threshold when he lost footing and fell into a catch basin. The catch basin contained heated water and chemicals which caused the employee to sustain first, second, and third-degree burns to lower extremities as well as a laceration to the right triceps.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Lower extremities, unspecified
severity: moderate