Incident date: 2024-02-18
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was using an oxygen torch to open a tap hole on a ladle. As the employee penetrated the tap hole with the torch, molten steel burned the employee. The employee was hospitalized with second- and third-degree burns to the left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten metal, slag
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  third degree or higher
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate