Incident date: 2019-06-19
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was placing a metal plate into a furnace to be heat-treated when he tripped and fell forward, resulting in his hands making contact with the hot metal plate. He suffered burns to the palms of both hands and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Metal plates, metal panels
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate