Incident date: 2018-01-05
NAICS industry code: 333924

An employee was attempting to warm himself near a commercial floor heater. As he walked away from the heater, he felt heat close to his neck and realized his clothes were on fire. He rolled to extinguish the flame, but his left and right shoulders received second and third degree burns and both hands suffered first degree burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source
code_source: title: Clothing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple upper extremities locations, n.e.c.
severity: moderate