Contact with hot objects or substances · Thermal burns second degree
Final narrative
An employee was repairing a cook tank. To reach the controls of tank, the walking grate was removed and the employee stepped to the ground. The platform was then at waist height on him. He heard a noise coming from another tank so he reached over and opened the air valve, causing air to rush into the bottom of that tank. Water flowed over the top of the tank and contacted the employee. He then jumped up to get on top of the platform and struck his left knee on the edge of the platform causing a laceration. The employee sustained burns to his neck and second-degree burns to his lower right leg and the top of his right foot.
Hospitalized Foot(feet) and leg(s) n.e.c. Water, liquids nonchemical
An employee pulled out a bucket of hot oil from under the fryer. The employee then stood on the table to clean the back wall. He stepped down into the bucket of hot oil, resulting in third-degree burns to his left leg.
An employee was performing maintenance under a kettle. When he removed a tri-clamp on a transfer line, the hot fat and broth material in the kettle poured out onto his arm. The employee was hospitalized with burns.
After completing a run with an oil distributor truck, an employee was working to return (suction) the hot oil to the tank of the truck. When the employee opened one of the valves, hot oil (approximately 385 degrees) sprayed their face, resulting in first-, second-, and third-degree burns.
An employee was filtering a fryer with a fryer filter machine. After going around the corner and then returning to the fryers, the employee stepped into the filter machine. The hot oil burned the employee's right ankle, and the employee was hospitalized.
An employee was using a water hose to clean debris out of the outfeed of a log conditioning vat. Water began entering the vat from the adjoining vat through a void in the separation wall at the infeed of the vats. As the employee was exiting the vat he had been working in using the access opening at the outfeed, hot water exiting the access opening entered the top of his protective hip wader. It pooled at the bottom of the wader and burned his left foot and ankle.