Incident date: 2018-04-22
NAICS industry code: 482111

An employee was welding next to railroad tracks. He removed the slag pan, stepped across the rail, and down the ballast section to dump slag from the slag pan. The slag slipped out of the pan and into a ditch with water adjacent to the tracks, resulting in an explosion. The employee suffered third degree burns, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate