# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220253360015` · 11/18/2025 · Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Welder (non-shop)
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** MOLTEN METAL
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** FOOT(NOT ANKLE/TOE)/TARSUS/METATARSUS
- **Days lost:** 5
- **Mine experience:** 6.69 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Freeport-McMoRan Inc
- **Operator:** Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc.
- **Mine:** [0200024](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0200024)
## Narrative

CC Employee was welding a wear liner block to the crusher saddle liner, in the process of building material with weld, molten Material size of a dime dropped and landed on top of pants where the top of where boot opening is.  The molten material burned through pant leg and entered the boot landing on the top of the left foot. Causing a burn.

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