Incident date: 2025-05-28
NAICS industry code: 331511

On May 28, 2025, an employee was taking the temperature of a furnace. When they put the temperature probe in the furnace, there was a reaction from the iron that caused molten iron to discharge onto the employee. The employee sustained third-degree burns to his left leg/foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten metal, slag
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  third degree or higher
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate