Incident date: 2022-10-11
NAICS industry code: 331110

On October 11, 2022, at 10:48 PM, an employee was operating a runout table when a breakout occurred on one of the strands. The employee plugged and stopped the strand and began cutting the billet. When the billet was cut loose, it fell into the water. The billet contained liquid steel, causing a splash toward the employee after falling into the water. The employee was hospitalized for second-degree burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate