Incident date: 2018-12-21
NAICS industry code: 334516

An employee was cleaning hot, hardening plastic from a barrel when the plastic exploded out of the barrel. The employee suffered burns to the face and hands.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Plastics, resins, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate