Incident date: 2024-01-15
NAICS industry code: 424720

An employee was troubleshooting the steam tracing around a VTB flow transmitter. The connection on the process tubing was dislodged, causing the VTB material to contact the employee. The employee was hospitalized with second-degree thermal burns to their left hand, wrist, and forearm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Drilling and extraction machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  second degree
code_body: title: Wrist(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate