Incident date: 2015-01-08
NAICS industry code: 311421

On or about January 8, 2014, at 10:40 p.m., an employee was hospitalized for burns after cleaning the juice processing tank. He was burned on his forehead, abdomen, hands, thighs, and ankles when hot steam blew out of the tank, struck him, and forced him off the 8-foot ladder that he was using to perform his daily task.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors, liquids, ice, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate