Incident date: 2020-11-18
NAICS industry code: 115111

At about 7:44 p.m., a group of employees were looking for the cause of a smoke-like smell. They traced the scent to the top of a seed house, where they found black areas in the cotton and on the wall around a bale motor. When the motor was turned off, the fire flashed. Two of the employees suffered severe hand, face, ear, and neck burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle or machinery fire
code_source: title: Picking, carding, combing machinery
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Head and neck
severity: low