Incident date: 2020-09-01
NAICS industry code: 331524

An employee was charging an aluminum furnace by adding a solid aluminum ingot into the molten aluminum bath. When the ingot was added, an explosion occurred and the employee sustained burns to multiple parts of the body.

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 body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate