Incident date: 2025-05-12
NAICS industry code: 562920

An employee was skimming slag out of molten aluminum with a shovel. The molten aluminum "popped" and landed on the employee's leg before falling down to his foot. The employee sustained third-degree burns to the right foot.

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