Incident date: 2017-09-08
NAICS industry code: 562211

An employee was clearing a clog in a rotary kiln's discharge hopper when hot debris splashed onto his fire-resistant clothing and then into his boot, burning his right foot. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate