Contact with hot objects or substances · Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Gerdau Midlothian Steel Mill, 300 Ward Road, MIDLOTHIAN, TEXAS 76065
on , Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was on a platform lancing a ladle holding liquid steel. He fell forward and his left hand went into the tundish containing liquid metal. He suffered third-degree burns to the hand and was hospitalized.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedMolten or hot metals, slag
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