Incident date: 2015-07-31
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was spraying water onto scrap steel that had spilled out of a furnace and had been cut into pieces using an oxygen lance. A steam explosion occurred, causing a second degree steam burn to his face and hands.  He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Steam, vapors-nonchemical
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate