Incident date: 2022-04-15
NAICS industry code: 322211

An employee was involved in repacking a pump in the pulp mill and had been monitoring/adjusting the seal water and packing gland for proper flow and gland leakage. As the employee turned and walked away from the completed job, the packing sleeve lost its fit to the hub/shaft and blew out of the packing box causing hot wheat black liquor (approximately 197 degrees) to spray onto the employee's back resulting in second degree thermal burns. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Chemicals and chemical products, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate