Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 99828.015 - Employee is splashed by molten plastic and suffers second de

Accident Summary Nr: 99828.015 -- Report ID: 0522300 -- Event Date: 09/29/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1270238.015	10/10/2017		326199	Profile Plastics, Inc.

Abstract: At 8;00 a.m. on September 29, 2017, an employee was disassembling some tooling from a plastic extrusion machine. As the employee checked the clearance, a localized pocket of hot plastic spurted through an opening, hit the other side of the tooling, and splashed onto the employees face, causing second degree burns. The employee was taken to a local hospital and kept overnight for observation.

Keywords: Burn, Face, Pressure Vessel, Struck By

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1270238.015	30	M	Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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