Contact with hot objects or substances · Thermal burns second degree
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Chick-fil-A, 1335 N Zaragoza Rd., EL PASO, TEXAS 79936
on — Thermal burns second degree, affecting the Foot (feet), toe(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was transporting buckets of hot oil to oil storage using a cart when the cart hit a bump, causing the oil to spill on his foot. He was hospitalized with second-degree burns and a loss of skin.
An employee was delivering food to a customer's home. She walked up to the front door and a dog came running out from the house. The dog bit the employee's left knee. The employee was hospitalized with a stress-induced heart attack.
An employee was taking orders at a drive-through. As they walked between two cars, the rear car accelerated and pinned the employee against the other car. They sustained a right leg fracture and a left leg muscle injury.
An employee was brushing the inside of a cooker. The lid of another, nearby cooker came open; hot peanut oil and steam sprayed out and caused second-degree burns to the employee's arms, neck, and face.
An employee used a 6-foot step ladder to pull a box of sanitizers from a shelf that was approximately 8 feet above the floor. He worked from the 3rd step of the step ladder to place a box on the shelf. He fell from the ladder, hitting his head on equipment and the floor. He suffered contusions, cuts, and lacerations to his forehead and other areas of his head, requiring hospitalization.
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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