Incident date: 2021-01-18
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was melting solid plastic to unclog a plug pipe when melted plastic shot out of the pipe and landed between the employee's glove and hot suit, causing third-degree burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, unspecified
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate