Incident date: 2016-07-19
NAICS industry code: 339999

At 4:15 p.m. on 7/18, an employee was cleaning a hot polymer glue press-pot using a scraper. The scraper broke, which caused both hands and her left forearm to come into contact with the hot glue. She sustained second degree burns to the palms and fingers of both hands and to the left forearm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Adhesives, glues, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate