Incident date: 2018-07-05
NAICS industry code: 332811

An employee was lighting a furnace for operation when a malfunction caused the flames to shoot out of the furnace, burning the employee's face. The employee was hospitalized for facial burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Forging machinery
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate