Incident date: 2024-11-20
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was using a plasma cutter that was set up on a self-propelled track system to bevel the edge of a four-sided plate. The employee's right thigh was impaled by a piece of slag metal and he suffered burns to his right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten metal, slag
code_nature: title: Surface, flesh wounds and burns, electrical injuries
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate