Incident date: 2020-10-06
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was using a slag spoon to skim off impurities on molten gray iron. The employee dipped the spoon into the zircon wash and gray iron popped onto the employee. The employee sustained first and second degree burns to the left side of the palm, the forearm, and the abdomen.

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: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate