Incident date: 2016-10-17
NAICS industry code: 326199

On October 17, 2016, an employee was attempting to clean scale out of a pipe when hot water back-flowed from the pipe and injured the employee. The employee was hospitalized.

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