Incident date: 2017-03-24
NAICS industry code: 331513

An employee was supervising coworkers who were pouring castings when heat from the castings ignited the employee's clothes, causing second and third degree burns to both legs. Proper PPE was not worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source
code_source: title: Clothing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate