Incident date: 2025-07-24
NAICS industry code: 562910

On July 24, 2025, an employee was shoveling material when a piece of steel slag fell from a nearby furnace and struck them in the back. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their thoracic vertebrae and a metatarsal.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object  unspecified
code_source: title: Molten metal, slag
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Trunk and other lower extremities
severity: moderate