FORT HALL, IDAHO—
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Contact with hot objects or substances · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fort Hall Irrigation , FORT HALL, IDAHO 83203 on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
An employee was burning debris in an irrigation canal when he lost his balance and fell into the canal, which contained hot ash and burning weeds. He was hospitalized with skin burns.
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