Incident date: 2016-11-27
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was calibrating the temperature for steam on a kettle. His coworker did not know he was calibrating the kettle and poured the hot water out of the kettle, splashing the employee's leg and causing second degree burns that required hospitalization.

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