Incident date: 2017-03-06
NAICS industry code: 311830

An employee was conducting research and development activities. He was attempting a different recipe for cooking corn using a pressure cooker. He opened the pressure cooker after the gauge returned to zero. After he removed the lid, leftover pressure caused the hot water and corn to splash on him, burning 42% of his body.

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