Incident date: 2017-01-06
NAICS industry code: 331529

An employee was placing a zinc ingot into an induction melting electric furnace. When the zinc ingot contacted the molten metal, the furnace blew up, causing severe burns to the employee's upper body and minor burns to a coworker.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forging machinery
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: low