Incident date: 2016-01-21
NAICS industry code: 331523

An employee operating a fork truck backed into a second fork truck, which had just transferred molten metal from a larger furnace to a ladle. The 1300-degree residual molten metal splashed out and contacted the employee's left foot, causing third degree burns. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate