Incident date: 2015-05-29
NAICS industry code: 336330

An employee accidentally hooked up a 55 gallon drum of solvent instead of a 55 gallon drum of waste water to the evaporative machine to perform cleaning operations.  The machine caught on fire on the inside and then created a flash fire on the outside which caused 2nd and 3rd degree burns to both hands and legs of the employee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle or machinery fire
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate