Incident date: 2015-01-04
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee in the #2 steel-producing BOF shop was making ladle additions to the first heat steel of the day on furnace #94 when the materials reacted, causing flames and high heat to come up through the chute. The employee received first and second degree burns to the face, right wrist and forearm, and a little bit on his right abdomen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Fire, flame
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate