Incident date: 2017-10-02
NAICS industry code: 325510

An employee took a vacuum of powder to the burn pit where another employee had been burning scrap wood, old pallets and boxes. The employee dumped the vacuum of powder onto the burn pit and the fire reignited. The employee received first and second degree burns to both legs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Small-scale (limited) fire
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate