Incident date: 2019-10-09
NAICS industry code: 484220

An employee was removing a "Christmas tree" fitting from a pressurized wax tank. The pressure in the wax tank caused the wax to burst from the fitting and onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized for burns to the body.

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