Incident date: 2018-08-20
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was on an 8-foot scaffold conducting a repair activity on a vessel when a hot substance shot from an opening in the vessel, striking the employee's face and causing second degree burns. The employee also fell off the scaffold and suffered a swollen right wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate