Incident date: 2023-01-06
NAICS industry code: 238990

On January 6, 2023, at 3 p.m., an employee was using a fire hose to clean hot fly ash off an 8-foot-high wall of a damper when the fly ash fell off the wall and caused a splash that contacted the employee, resulting in a thermal burn to their abdomen and legs.

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