Incident date: 2020-08-04
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was conducting maintenance on a natural gas glycol dehydration unit when the housing unit ruptured and hot glycol fluid made contact with the employee, leading to hospitalization for third degree burns on top of the head, neck, and back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Ethylene glycol
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Head, neck, and trunk
severity: moderate