Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns

An employee offloaded tertiary butyl catechol (corrosive) from a cargo tank to a facility tank. Upon completion of the transfer, the employee began disconnecting hoses. He had difficulty with one of the connections and when the hose disconnected, hot product contacted the employee’s left arm and leg, causing a third degree burn.

An employee was powering up a compressor and noticed a leaky hose. When he turned around, the hose popped off and sprayed him in the back, causing second and third degree burns.

On or about 5/11/2016, an employee was delivering mail when he noticed smoke coming from a resident’s garage. He stopped and noticed a gas can on fire and two kids in the garage. He told the kids to get out of the garage and to kick the gas can out. One of the kids kicked […]

An employee was unclogging a pump. While tightening the lid, the lid popped off and water at approximately 180 degrees splashed onto the employee’s body burning his upper extremities. The employee received second and third degree burns.

An employee was transferring wax from a storage tank into a tanker truck. The employee opened a valve that was under pressure and a fire occurred. The employee sustained second and third degree burns to the face and neck.

An employee suffered from 2nd and 3rd degree burns to his chest, waist, and left hand when the shirt he was wearing caught fire while he was operating a gas-powered cutting torch to cut 8 bolts.

On 2/2/16, at 9:45 a.m., an employee was pouring hot water from a bucket into the sink when hot water contacted the employee’s right leg. The employee suffered 3rd degree burns from the knee to the ankle and was hospitalized.

An employee was welding near waste motor oil. The waste motor oil caught fire and the employee sustained first to third degree burns to the legs while putting the fire out.

An employee was torch-cutting steel inside of a 75′-long by 18′-deep by 25′-wide barge, using oxygen/acetylene from a centrally located 75′-long gas-supplying line, when the employee suffered third degree burns from the waist to the neck.

An operator turned off the extruder when a maintenance worker told him to turn it back on. As he was turning it back on, he purged the machine. Air was caught behind some plastic, causing the 325-degree plastic to shoot out and hit the employee’s right arm. The employee suffered third degree burns.