Incident date: 2023-08-28
NAICS industry code: 623110

An employee was tightening bolts on a pump in the boiler room to address a leak when the volute (the part the pump attaches to) and the seal potentially burst under pressure. The employee sustained thermal burns from steam.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors-nonchemical
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate