Incident date: 2018-05-24
NAICS industry code: 326112

A mechanic was opening the slide gate of a plastic extruder machine when the heat zone element overheated the plastic up to 900 degrees instead of 400 degrees. The hot plastic sprayed out and onto a different employee who was approximately 10 feet away. The injured employee suffered burns to the arms and face.

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