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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO—

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Contact with hot objects or substances · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Federal Bureau of Prisons, MDC Guaynabo, GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO 00965 on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the multiple lower extremities locations, n.e.c..

Final narrative

An employee was walking outside the premises of the main building. The soil foundation was loose and he stepped over vapor lines under the ground, resulting in his left leg getting burned from the calf down. He was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Multiple lower extremities locations, n.e.c. Steam, vapors-nonchemical

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