Incident date: 2024-09-08
NAICS industry code: 331421

An employee was setting up a furnace and lighting the torch on the furnace when they sustained burns from a flashback flame. The employee was hospitalized with burns to their head, face, chest, arms, and armpit area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Forging machinery
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
severity: moderate