Incident date: 2017-08-30
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was using a skimming bar to remove slag from the top of a ladle of molten iron when the molten iron (2,600 degrees) poured down and burned his left leg and foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate