Incident date: 2021-05-05
NAICS industry code: 333519

At 4:45 p.m. on May 5, 2021, an employee was cutting up steel scrap with an oxygen lance rod. A piece of hot slag went under his face shield, bounced off his chest, entered his mouth, and was swallowed. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ingestion of harmful substance
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate