Incident date: 2021-04-29
NAICS industry code: 326160

An employee changed out a press mold and heated a nozzle with a torch to purge the press out. After the employee was finished heating the nozzle, he went to close the front door when degraded plastic came out of the barrel and onto his right arm. The employee suffered burns to his arm that required hospitalization.

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: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate