Incident date: 2018-07-28
NAICS industry code: 331524

An employee was working in the pit pulling impurities in the trough while facing backwards. The molten metal splashed and burned the employee's left leg. The employee received first and second degree burns to the thigh and calf areas.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple leg locations, n.e.c.
severity: moderate