Contact with hot objects or substances · Thermal burns second degree
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at McLane Classic Foods, 3165 South Burleson Boulevard, BURLESON, TEXAS 76028
on — Thermal burns second degree, affecting the Foot (feet), toe(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was conducting an internal cleaning of a food packaging machine to change over from one product to another. As part of the normal flushing and cleaning procedure, hot water was sent through the internal piping components. Boiling water and steam released from the system and contacted the employee, resulting in second-degree burns to both of her feet.
An employee removed a product pump face plate to investigate a no flow situation on a pouch machine. The plug supplying electricity to the mixer hopper was physically disconnected before the employee put his hand over the front of the pump and into the feed tube. As hot product was leaking from the pump body, the employee called for assistance to reassemble the pump and stop the leak. The employee then felt a pulling sensation on his finger from the pump, which had amputated the tip of his finger.
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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