Incident date: 2015-12-04
NAICS industry code: 332311

On Friday 12/4/2015, at 6 pm, an employee was scooping flux from a galvanized zinc kettle. As he was putting the excess flux into a 55-gallon drum, the hot flux boiled up and popped. The splash from the flux went down into his leather glove, resulting in second degree burns on the left hand and wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Hand(s) and wrist(s)
severity: moderate