Incident date: 2019-08-21
NAICS industry code: 331513

An employee was walking over a transfer surface for hot steel bars when the employee fell towards the hot bar. The employee's right leg came in contact with the hot bar, receiving second and third degree burns from the knee down and above the ankle. The employee also received a burn on the left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Knee(s) and leg(s)
severity: moderate