Incident date: 2022-11-05
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was vacuuming drums into a hopper and stepped away while a nearby steam drum was being blown down to control level. Upon returning to the task, the employee stepped into an unguarded trench that contained hot water and sustained bilateral first and second-degree burns from the thighs to the toes.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Lower extremities, n.e.c.
severity: moderate