Incident date: 2015-10-24
NAICS industry code: 623110

An employee was melting butter in 4 to 5 quart pot on a gas stove when the pot caught on fire. A co-worker used a fire extinguisher to put out the fire. The injured employee took the pot with hot butter and while walking towards the door leading to a hallway and outside the building, she fell on the kitchen floor. The hot butter burned her right arm and thigh. She was admitted to the hospital.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Dairy products
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate