Incident date: 2024-07-17
NAICS industry code: 331314

At 3:17 p.m. on July 17, 2024, an employee was using a shovel to clean molten metal from the surge bowl of an aluminum launder system when the metal splashed onto the employee's lower left leg. The employee suffered third-degree burns.

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: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate