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Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
1 hospitalization · 2018077095 · 7/14/2018 · SynCot Plastics, Inc.
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Nonclassifiable
- Nature of injury
- Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
Cause
- Event
- Contact with hot objects or substances
- Source
- Plastics, resins, n.e.c.
- Secondary source
- Extruding machinery
Employer
- Name
- SynCot Plastics, Inc.
- Location
- 707 South Erwin St., CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, 30120
- NAICS
- 423930
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
Two employees were clearing a jam on an extruder machine when the hot plastic ejected from the mold and burned one of them.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
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