Incident date: 2021-07-18
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee used a 20-pound dry chemical fire extinguisher to extinguish a fire under the furnace on a melt deck. The employee began to have trouble breathing and was hospitalized, suffering from smoke inhalation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fire, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate