Incident date: 2019-11-01
NAICS industry code: 313310

A maintenance employee was cleaning a forklift engine with a pressure washer when the nozzle tip came off and steam released. He suffered a laceration and burns to his hand.

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: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate