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Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
1 hospitalization · 2020087652 · 8/12/2020 · Polyplex USA, LLC
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Nonclassifiable
- Nature of injury
- Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
Cause
- Event
- Contact with hot objects or substances
- Source
- Plastics, resins, n.e.c.
Employer
- Name
- Polyplex USA, LLC
- Location
- 3001 Mallard Fox Drive NW, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- NAICS
- 326199
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was burned by hot liquid polymer, released as he took a nozzle out of a drain. He suffered second- and third-degree burns.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown