Incident date: 2016-02-11
NAICS industry code: 332420

An employee was mig welding on a vertical seam on a 137-ft-diameter, 40 ft.-high open-top above-ground steel storage tank when a piece of hot slag dropped down onto his right boot. His leg began swelling and he was later hospitalized with right ankle burns.

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: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate