Incident date: 2020-01-31
NAICS industry code: 331525

On January 31, 2020, an employee was tearing down a die and emptying molten metal from a mold when the molten metal contacted the employee, burning his right leg and ankle. He was hospitalized.

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: Ankle(s) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate