Incident date: 2019-09-06
NAICS industry code: 331513

On September 6, 2019, an employee was working as a keeper helper on the cast floor at the blast furnaces. This involved observing the filling of torpedo ladles, maintaining the iron run, and taking temperature and iron samples. After experiencing cramping, the employee was hospitalized with heat related illness.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to environmental heat
code_source: title: Heat-environmental
code_nature: title: Effects of heat and light, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate