Incident date: 2023-12-22
NAICS industry code: 331318

An employee was between the trough and casting pit, cleaning a filter box at the end of a cast. His right foot slipped off the lid of the cast pan and went into an opening where molten aluminum goes into a trough. The employee contacted molten aluminum and sustained third degree burns to his right leg, ankle, and foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Slip without fall, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Casting machinery
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple lower extremities locations, n.e.c.
severity: moderate