Incident date: 2019-03-28
NAICS industry code: 331316

An employee had to remove a plug from one furnace to allow molten aluminum to move along a trough to another furnace.  When he removed the plug, the molten aluminum splashed out of the trough and went on his pant leg and into his open boot, traveling into the bottom of his shoe and burning the bottom of his foot. Proper PPE was not worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Sole(s), unspecified
severity: moderate