Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns

An employee was standing on a step stool and attempting to grab an empty pot from on top of an oven when the step stool collapsed and slipped out from under her feet. As she was falling to the ground, her left hand grabbed a pot of boiling water from a stove below, spilling the […]

While walking toward a cooler, an employee tripped over a filter pan that contained filtered debris from hot oil and received third degree burns.

An employee was carrying buckets of hot tar to perform roofing activities when he tripped and lost his balance. The hot tar contacted his body, causing third degree burns to both of his hands.

An employee working on a car sustained third degree burns to 50 percent of his body when a spark ignited the gas tank of the car he was working on.

A caster operator was removing a safety blank while wearing heavy welding gloves to insert a smaller nozzle in a casting tundish holding molten steel. The blank fell onto the top of the shroud, causing the molten steel to splatter onto his flame-resistant clothing and metatarsal safety boots. He suffered second- and third-degree burns to […]

An employee was cutting pipe at a wellhead when a pocket of oil suddenly surfaced (well was plugged). A flash fire then occurred, causing second to third degree burns to both of the employee’s hands and the right side of the stomach. PPE was not worn at the time of the incident.

An employee was welding next to railroad tracks. He removed the slag pan, stepped across the rail, and down the ballast section to dump slag from the slag pan. The slag slipped out of the pan and into a ditch with water adjacent to the tracks, resulting in an explosion. The employee suffered third degree […]

An employee was feeding foil inner lid seals into the shuttle stacker on a pint filler machine when some of the seals fell onto the conveyor. The employee attempted to grab a stack of the seals from the conveyor. Her right hand was then caught and pulled into the machine, making contact with the heat […]

An employee was preparing to take a sample from a tanker truck when a reaction occurred, causing the vapor inside the tank to combust. He received second and third degree burns to his hands, arms, and the top of his head.

An employee was removing tape from pipes at a powder coating booth. As a pipe exited the powder coating booth, he attempted to remove the tape at the end of the pipe. His left forearm was then pulled into the pipe, receiving third degree burns that required hospitalization.