Incident date: 2019-08-01
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was checking on an in-service gas well because the gas had stopped flowing. As hot water ran through the system to melt built-up paraffin, the cap blew off the pipe and the hot water sprayed the employee's face. The employee was hospitalized.

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: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate