Incident date: 2020-01-24
NAICS industry code: 331111

On January 23, 2020, an employee working for AK Steel was starting to pour an electric arc furnace when an explosion inside of the furnace caused molten metal to be ejected from the furnace, striking the employee. The employee was hospitalized with serious burns to her upper body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, unspecified
code_source: title: Furnaces, heaters
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate