# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220023520006` · 12/05/2002 · Tata Chemicals (Soda Ash) Partners
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Wet down working place
- **Injury source:** WATER
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** FOOT(NOT ANKLE/TOE)/TARSUS/METATARSUS
- **Days lost:** 21
- **Mine experience:** 24.26 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** General Chemical; Andover Group
- **Operator:** Tata Chemicals (Soda Ash) Partners
- **Mine:** [4801497](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4801497)
## Narrative

EE WAS WASHING DOWN WITH A CONDENSATE HOSE, WHENTHE STREAM OF WATER HIT AN I-BEAM AND IT SPLASHED BACK INTO HIS BOOT, CAUSING A 2ND DEGREE BURN TO HIS LEFT FOOT.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*