Incident date: 2022-07-19
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was washing out the rear of a vacuum truck using a fire hose to remove fly ash. A large clump of ash and mud came out of the truck and splashed the employee causing burns to their lower body from the hip down.

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