Incident date: 2019-10-23
NAICS industry code: 331529

An employee was changing a burner tube on a furnace when molten salt poured out of the tube and onto their leg. The employee was hospitalized with third degree burns to the right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Chemical products, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate