Incident date: 2019-08-22
NAICS industry code: 331523

A maintenance employee was servicing a casting machine when the automatic ladle spilled molten aluminum on the employee's back. The employee was hospitalized with severe burns to the back.

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: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate