Incident date: 2017-09-04
NAICS industry code: 311314

An employee was performing maintenance and replacing an equipment pump. The employee turned the pump on and opened a valve, which resulted in liquefied sugar spraying onto a product tank and then splashing onto the employee, causing burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Food products, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate