Incident date: 2015-08-14
NAICS industry code: 324110

An employee had connected a flux car for unloading. The previous car that unloaded into this line had oil with some residual water. When the flux (a tar-like substance) made contact with the water, it expanded and contacted the employee as he exited the railcar, causing first and second degree thermal burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Coal, natural gas, petroleum fuels and products, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate