Incident date: 2016-09-15
NAICS industry code: 423740

An employee was charging a rack through a produce case on the sales floor. He had the Schrader core removed from the access fitting where his hose was hooked up. Upon completion, the case went into a time-off defrost, which fills the evaporator with liquid Freon. 

When he disconnected his hose liquid Freon started to spray out of the fitting. As he tried to reconnect his hose, the Freon burned his right hand and forearm and his left hand and part of his left forearm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with cold objects or substances
code_source: title: Chemical products, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Other burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate