Incident date: 2022-08-11
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was cleaning a machine's die head. Hot plastic was purged onto the employee, who suffered second- and third-degree burns to the lower right forearm from wrist to elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, unspecified
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Wrist(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate