Incident date: 2016-01-14
NAICS industry code: 325211

An operator turned off the extruder when a maintenance worker told him to turn it back on. As he was turning it back on, he purged the machine. Air was caught behind some plastic, causing the 325-degree plastic to shoot out and hit the employee's right arm. The employee suffered third degree burns.

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: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate