Incident date: 2017-04-10
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was filling a quadrant ladle with molten iron from a holding ladle. The trough was not in the upright position because the machine was in between cycles. The quadrant ladle then overfilled, causing some of the molten iron to spill out and onto the employee's feet, burning them.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate