Incident date: 2024-10-28
NAICS industry code: 331524

An employee was dipping an approximately 2-gallon ladle into a 300-pound furnace to fill the ladle with molten metal. The molten metal in the ladle fell onto the back of the employee's right pant leg. The metal burned through the employee's pants and fell down into their boots. The employee was hospitalized with second- and third-degree burns on their right foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten metal, slag
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  third degree or higher
code_body: title: Foot (feet), toe(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate