Incident date: 2016-07-15
NAICS industry code: 331523

On July 15, 2016, an employee was skimming slag off the top of a pot of molten bronze when some of the slag and molten bronze dropped onto his coveralls. The molten bronze and slag, with a temperature over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit burned through his coveralls, seriously burning his shin, ankle, and foot before his boot could be removed.

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: Multiple lower extremities locations, n.e.c.
severity: moderate