Contact with hot objects or substances · Second degree heat (thermal) burns
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Engie Generation North America LLC, Central Utility Plant, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 20057
on — Second degree heat (thermal) burns, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was preparing a boiler for curtailment (switching boiler from natural gas to a liquid fuel source). The employee had just removed the plug at the end of the boiler in preparation for the atomizing fuel oil gun to be inserted. When the plug was removed a flame event occurred engulfing the employee's face, neck, chest, and arms. The employee suffered second-degree burns to the face, arms, and hands.
An employee pulled out a bucket of hot oil from under the fryer. The employee then stood on the table to clean the back wall. He stepped down into the bucket of hot oil, resulting in third-degree burns to his left leg.
An employee was performing maintenance under a kettle. When he removed a tri-clamp on a transfer line, the hot fat and broth material in the kettle poured out onto his arm. The employee was hospitalized with burns.
After completing a run with an oil distributor truck, an employee was working to return (suction) the hot oil to the tank of the truck. When the employee opened one of the valves, hot oil (approximately 385 degrees) sprayed their face, resulting in first-, second-, and third-degree burns.
An employee was filtering a fryer with a fryer filter machine. After going around the corner and then returning to the fryers, the employee stepped into the filter machine. The hot oil burned the employee's right ankle, and the employee was hospitalized.
An employee was using a water hose to clean debris out of the outfeed of a log conditioning vat. Water began entering the vat from the adjoining vat through a void in the separation wall at the infeed of the vats. As the employee was exiting the vat he had been working in using the access opening at the outfeed, hot water exiting the access opening entered the top of his protective hip wader. It pooled at the bottom of the wader and burned his left foot and ankle.
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