Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls
Contact with hot objects or substances · Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls, 4101 Washington Avenue, NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA 23607
on — Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was performing carbon arc welding when hot multi-metal weld fell downward and onto the employee's skin between the neck and chest, under the collar of the employee's fire-rated overalls. The employee suffered second and third degree burns.
HospitalizedMultiple body parts, n.e.c.Molten or hot metals, slag
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