Incident date: 2020-09-21
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was cleaning in the pack off area of the facility using a high pressure hot water hose. The employee was walking with the hose when the hose got caught on the conveyor frame in the area and the employee lost their grip on the hose. The hose fell to the ground and the employee was sprayed with hot water. Hot water got inside their boot and the employee sustained first and second degree burns to their left foot.

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: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate