Incident date: 2023-07-07
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee went into the crystallizer building and began removing a metal elbow from a hot water pipe when 174-degree water sprayed out of a crack in the pipe. The employee sustained burns from their chest to their lower abdomen as well as on their left arm.

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: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate