Incident date: 2015-08-12
NAICS industry code: 541330

An employee received 2nd degree burns on 27% of his body from contact with hot water when his safety vest caught a valve handle that opened while inspecting a heat exchanger.

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: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate