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Accident Summary Nr: 15715.015 - Employee Receives First and Second Degree Burns during Railr

Accident Summary Nr: 15715.015 -- Report ID: 0522000 -- Event Date: 04/18/2012
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
395062.015	04/19/2012		331111	Ak Steel Corporation

Abstract: At 1:00 a.m. on April 18, 2012, Employee #1 was operating a control box for a remote controlled locomotive and staged a line of hot metal rail cars containing molten iron so they could be hot topped. Hot topping is a process that allows rail cars to keep the heat in so the molten iron does not cool to a temperature that the Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) can use. After, Hot Topping nine hot metal cars, Employee #1 moved the locomotive up slightly to take up the slack in the string of rail cars. Then a violent reaction occurred and the molten metal exploded, blowing of the lids off of the rail cars and sending a shower of molten metal raining down over 100 feet away. Employee #1 received 1st and 2nd degree burns on his arms, left wrist, and the back of his left calf muscle while he was running away.

Keywords: Burn, Explosion, Molten Metal, Railroad Car

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	395062.015	44	M	Non Hospitalized injury

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