Incident date: 2020-11-25
NAICS industry code: 325920

An employee was cleaning up after working with BB cartridges (an ignition charge assembly) in a rotary machine. Residual HMX under the funnel ignited due to friction, burning the employee's right hand. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle or machinery fire
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate