Incident date: 2019-10-01
NAICS industry code: 311999

At about 3:30 p.m. on October 1, 2019, a processing blender was changing a soft-drink-making system over from clean-in-place to production. After he broke the line, the system discharged cool water (due to condensation), then steam. He suffered first- and second-degree burns to the chest and back and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors-nonchemical
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate