Incident date: 2025-05-23
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was welding flared ends in the wire room inside the warehouse when a piece of welding slag fell and burned through his jeans and into his left boot. The employee was hospitalized with a burn to the top of his left ankle and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten metal, slag
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate