# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220252610029` · 09/16/2025 · CalPortland Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** FLAME,FIRE,SMOKE,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** LOWER LEG/TIBIA/FIBULA
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.06 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Taiheiyo Cement Corp
- **Operator:** CalPortland Company
- **Mine:** [4501707](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4501707)
## Narrative

Employee was using a cutting torch to cut scrap metal. The torch caused a small brush fire behind the employee which caught their pant leg on fire, burning through two layers of clothing. Employee sustained a partial thickness second degree burn on the back of left leg just above the ankle.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*