Incident date: 2023-04-14
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was operating an excavator with a hammer attachment. As the employee began hammering the pot and creating a hole in the slag crust, the slag hit the water and hot material was projected towards the equipment. The employee sustained second and third-degree burns to 10.5% of their body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate