Incident date: 2016-04-25
NAICS industry code: 325211

The employee was operating the plastic compounding extruder and completing a screen change. When the plastic built up pressure, it came out of the screen change burning the employee's left forearm.

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: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate