Contact with hot objects or substances · Thermal burns second degree
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at TH Foods Inc, 7166 Greenlee Road, CALEDONIA, ILLINOIS 61011
on — Thermal burns second degree, affecting the Multiple body parts n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was operating a honey roaster. The employee loaded a basket of ingredients to lower into the roasting kettle. There was slack in the hoisting chain, and the employee reached around the roaster's plexiglass guard to move the basket into the kettle. The employee was splashed with oil, resulting in second-degree burns to their arm, calf, and abdomen.
Hospitalized Multiple body parts n.e.c. Fats, oils, cooking greases
An employee was checking moisture on the sheet conveyor belt. The employee's left hand was pulled between the two conveyor belts and pinched between a roller. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a muscle injury. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.
An employee was moving a conveyor system when it tipped over and fell on the employee. The employee broke a leg, fingers, ribs, and vertebrae, requiring hospitalization.
On October 21, 2016, an employee was packing finished goods onto trays. The trays were on a flexible conveyor system. One of the trays turned sideways and as the employee attempted to straighten the tray out , her right ring fingertip was caught and amputated between two links of the conveyor.
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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