Incident date: 2020-01-18
NAICS industry code: 722511

An employee was placing frozen items into a bin containing hot water to defrost them when the hot water splashed on the employee, causing burns that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Water
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate