On Thursday, June 20th 2013 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Lake Forest, CA after learning of an incident at Oakley Inc which had occured on Friday, May 10th 2013. A Supervisor had been injured when the employee's burns hands when sprayed with hot water
Accident Date2013-05-10
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeAt approximately 5:15 p.m. on May 10, 2013, Employee #1, a supervisor, was notified by a coworker that a fitting on a hot water connection to an Engel 2000 molding machine was leaking hot water. While waiting for a technician to lock out the machine, the employee began wiping down the dripping hose. The connection hose were loose when he grasped it and hot water shot out of the partly open connection spraying the employee's hands. Employee #1 was taken to a local medical center for treatment and was referred from there to a local burn center. Employee #1 was treated for thermal burns to his hands and released one month later.