Incident date: 2017-03-28
NAICS industry code: 334516

An employee was removing a valve end cap that was located on the front of the temperature control skid of a reactor when steam and hot water exited the end of the pipe and caused second degree burns to the employee's left arm, leg, and side of the body.

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