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Report: Contact with hot objects or substances at Merchants Metals LLC in Houston, Texas
DATE: 12/04/15
On Friday 12/4/2015, at 6 pm, an employee was scooping flux from a galvanized zinc kettle. As he was putting the excess flux into a 55-gallon drum, the hot flux boiled up and popped. The splash from the flux went down into his leather glove, resulting in second degree burns on the left hand and wrist.
| Report ID | 2015129177 | |
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| Date | 12/04/2015 | |
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| UPA | 1044520 | |
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| Primary NAICS | 332311 | |
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| Nature | 1522 | Second degree heat (thermal) burns |
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| Part of Body | 482 | Hand(s) and wrist(s) |
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| Source | 452 | Molten or hot metals, slag |
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| Event | 533 | Contact with hot objects or substances |
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| Hospitalized | Yes | |
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| Amputation | No | |
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