Incident date: 2019-05-16
NAICS industry code: 311712

An employee turned on a process pump inside a fish processing plant. The pump cap housing blew off causing hot water to forcibly flow out of the pump and strike the employee in multiple areas on the front of his body. As the employee turned away from the hot water, he was struck in multiple areas on the back of his body and knocked to the ground momentarily. Hot water also struck a second employee on the back while running away from the area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Pressurized water-blast
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: low