Incident date: 2017-04-27
NAICS industry code: 331513

An employee was melting steel in a furnace when the molten steel contacted piping carrying circulating water and caused an explosion. The employee was burned by steam and molten metal and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forging machinery
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate