Incident date: 2021-06-23
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was aligning and feeding pipes into the galvanizing tank at a charging station when the pipes slid in at an angle, resulting in the molten zinc shooting up the pipe and onto the employee. The employee suffered burns to their right wrist.

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: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate