Incident date: 2015-03-23
NAICS industry code: 311421

An employee was washing a 1000-gallon tank on a catwalk. The water in an adjacent tank boiled over, splashing the employee's back with boiling water. The employee sustained first and second degree burns (blistering).

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: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate