Incident date: 2018-10-31
NAICS industry code: 325991

An employee was scraping hot melted plastic from an extruder machine. The employee's putty knife penetrated a skin formed on the plastic; molten plastic sprayed onto the employee, causing burns to the face, torso, and left and right arms.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate