Incident date: 2023-03-07
NAICS industry code: 238290

Employees were trying to set a 25-foot ladder beside a furnace. They could not get it into place on their first attempt, so they moved the telescoping forklift they were using to another position. During the second attempt, the boom/forks caught on a valve/pipe on a steam-containing cooling line. The motion of the lift broke the line; steam was released, causing second-degree burns to one employee's right forearm, right thigh, stomach, and abdomen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors-nonchemical
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate