Incident date: 2020-06-05
NAICS industry code: 336611

While welding with a wire fed welder, an employee stood up, lost his balance, and his hand caught the hot wire tip on the welder. The employee was hospitalized with a swollen and burned index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Welding, cutting, and blow torches
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate