Incident date: 2018-05-03
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was cleaning out the slag runner on a blast furnace when the employee began to experience muscle cramping in the arms, legs, and back. The employee was hospitalized for dehydration and/or potential heat stress-related symptoms.

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