Incident date: 2019-01-29
NAICS industry code: 921190

An employee was burning debris in an irrigation canal when he lost his balance and fell into the canal, which contained hot ash and burning weeds.  He was hospitalized with skin burns.

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: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate