Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2018-07-19 | Browntown | Wisconsin | Grede Wisconsin Subsidiaries LLC | Head and neck | Contact with hot objects or substances |
A employee was attempting to chisel through a tuyere on a cupola melt deck that had started to solidify. When he created a hole through the chilled iron, molten iron exploded out of the tuyere and struck him on the right side of his face and neck. As he moved out of the way, he tripped over a water pipe on the deck; he fell, striking his head on the metal deck and losing consciousness. | |||||
2017-08-30 | Browntown | Wisconsin | Grede Wisconsin Subsidiaries LLC | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was using a skimming bar to remove slag from the top of a ladle of molten iron when the molten iron (2,600 degrees) poured down and burned his left leg and foot. |