Incident date: 2015-08-31
NAICS industry code: 331511

At approximately 2:00 PM on 8/31/15, an employee was trying to retrieve the tip of a plunger that fell into a molten metal receiver. As he reached to retrieve the plunger, molten metal contacted and burned his left hand, requiring hospitalization.

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: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate