Incident date: 2024-09-06
NAICS industry code: 331316

An employee was operating a press. A billet was uneven as it entered the loader; it hit the ram and then sheared off a hydraulic line, which sprayed hydraulic fluid into the employee's mouth and was ingested. The fluid was ignited, and the fireball caught the employee's hair on fire and he sustained first-degree burns to his forehead and hand. Ingestion of the fluid and inhalation of the fumes affected the employee's airway. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to harmful substance multiple routes of exposure
code_source: title: Lubricating fluids
code_nature: title: Effects of poison, toxic, or allergenic exposure  unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate