Contact with hot objects or substances · Second degree heat (thermal) burns
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc., 1300 Highway 107, SANTA ROSA, TEXAS 78593
on — Second degree heat (thermal) burns, affecting the nonclassifiable.
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Final narrative
Employees were about to take samples of hot sugar cane juice as the machine was processing the sugar cane. An air bubble inside the line caused the line to burp, and 200-degree hot sugar cane juice inside the line splattered onto the employees.
Two employees sustained first and second degree burns.
HospitalizedNonclassifiableFood products, n.e.c.
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