Incident date: 2019-10-14
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was repairing the pour spout on a furnace. He had stepped over and was straddling the spout when his foot became caught on the edge of the furnace lid. He lost his balance and fell backwards into the furnace slag pit, suffering multiple fractures to his back and ribs. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate