Incident date: 2022-07-10
NAICS industry code: 331419

An employee was observing the clean-up process of a spilled ladle. As the employee was walking away from an area of cooling metal, there was an eruption due to molten metal reacting with water. The employee fell forward, attempted to catch himself, and his right hand touched the molten metal resulting in burns to the little fingertip and middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate