Incident date: 2019-10-24
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was working as the lead operator of an extrusion line and was monitoring the operation of the plastics extruder. The employee was standing next to the vent of an extruder machine when hot plastic overflowed from the extrusion line s vacuum vent. The employee sustained severe burns to his arms and forehead.

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: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate