Incident date: 2016-04-08
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was cleaning while a coworker was pushing a cart of hot coffee nearby. A carafe of hot coffee fell off the cart and spilled onto the employee's ankles, causing severe burns that required hospitalization and surgery.

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