Incident date: 2022-06-17
NAICS industry code: 562998

An employee was using a cutting torch to cut a curved metal tank plate. Pieces of the metal fell and hit his foot behind the steel toe and burned his left foot. He then lifted the piece with his left hand. The employee was hospitalized with a cut and third degree burns on the left foot and second degree burns to the left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate