A Rikers Island correction officer was brutally attacked by an inmate with a history of assaulting officers, the correction officers' union said Sunday afternoon.

The Correction Officers' Benevolent Association said inmate J'von Johnson threw scalding hot water on the officer and then repeatedly punched him Saturday night.

The officer was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for first- and third-degree burns and a broken nose. The union has not released the officer's name at this time.

The union said Johnson is housed in an enhanced supervision unit at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on murder and assault charges.

A Department of Correction spokesperson said Johnson will be arrested and face charges.

Following the incident, the officers' union is calling for all hot pots be removed from the jails.

This marks the fourth vicious assault on a correction officer since Feb. 10, according to the correction officers' union.

On that day, inmates at a Rikers Island jail facility brutally assaulted correction officer Jean Souffrant, fracturing his spine, according to the correction officers' union.

In a statement, Peter Thorne, the department's deputy commissioner of public information, said, "Outrageous attacks like this, on an officer just doing his job helping keep the rest of us safe, are exactly why this inmate was immediately placed into more restrictive custody."