Incident date: 2023-12-04
NAICS industry code: 238320

Employees were building scaffold access under the switch deck by the coke chutes. Two employees were standing on a scaffold platform while passing scaffold material. The coke drum above them was being cut (washed down with water). Heated water left the coke drum through a chute and splashed the two employees. Both employees were hospitalized with first- and second-degree thermal burns to the shoulders and upper back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Water
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Shoulder(s) and back
severity: low