Incident date: 2025-07-04
NAICS industry code: 311811

An employee was performing sanitation tasks and adjusting a valve by tapping it with a rubber mallet. The valve came apart and the employee was sprayed with 180-190-degree water. He was hospitalized with thermal burns to multiple parts of the body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Water, liquids nonchemical
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  unspecified
severity: moderate