Incident date: 2015-10-19
NAICS industry code: 322222

An employee was looking into a hopper containing molten plastic to determine why the hopper was not running smoothly. Molten plastic backed up onto the employee's hands, burning them and requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate