On Wednesday, June 21st 2017 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Cupertino, CA which had occured previously at Stevens Creek Quarry, Inc.. A 53 year old man working as a was injured on the job when the employee was burned by scalding hot water from liquid
Accident Date2017-06-17
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeAt approximately 5:45 p.m. on June 17, 2017, Employee #1 was servicing a CAT 980K Front-End Loader (Equipment Number 9812) and removing a liquid-ballast adapter. The liquid-ballast adapter was filled with scalding hot water. As he worked on the liquid-ballast adapter, scalding hot water was ejected from the adapter. The scalding hot water struck his upper legs, groin and lower stomach and caused second and third degree burns on the body parts. Employee #1 was transported to a medical center, where he was underwent burn treatment and was then hospitalized.