Southern Field Maintenance and Fabrication, L.L.C.
Contact with hot objects or substances · Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
Final narrative
An employee was working inside a power boiler (permit-required confined space) while arc gouging (cutting) a 30-foot long by 27-inch wide I-beam into 5-foot sections. He was standing on the I-beam he was cutting and another I-beam that was positioned 6 inches away. The I-beam he was gouging shifted after he finished cutting through it and moved toward the adjacent I-beam. As the I-beam shifted, it caught his right arm between the I-beams. He sustained third degree burns to his right forearm and hand from the I-beams, which were heated from the arc gouging process.
HospitalizedHand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.Beams-unattached metal
An employee connected a steam line to a hose to clean equipment when the fitting broke loose. They were struck by steam in the left inner thigh, resulting in burns that required hospitalization.
An employee was making tea when she noticed tea grinds were collecting on the side and water was no longer dripping through the funnel. The employee was checking the funnel when boiling water and tea grinds spilled onto the left side of her body. The employee sustained burns to her neck, back, and arm.
An employee had turned off the ball valve on a waterpipe system and was removing the plug when the coupling system attached to the strainer came apart. Hot water sprayed on his arm and back, resulting in first- and second-degree burns that required surgery.
An employee was using a shovel to remove waste vermiculite from molten zinc. The metal had been placed in a bin and partially hardened. The employee broke through the partially hardened metal; still-molten metal flowed to the employee's steel-toed right boot and entered through the cloth boot tongue. The employee suffered a third-degree burn to the right foot and was hospitalized.