Incident date: 2015-08-23
NAICS industry code: 424610

Four employees were burned by hot plastic while working in the vicinity of a plastic extruding machine. One employee required hospitalization. The employees were purging an extruder machine and cleaning the die when they were sprayed with hot, melted PVC material. The hospitalized employee suffered first and second degree burns to the face and neck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Head and neck
severity: moderate