Incident date: 2017-06-09
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was splashed by hot plastic while changing screen filters on an extruder machine, suffering second degree burns to the forearms and face. The employee was hospitalized.

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