Incident date: 2023-09-05
NAICS industry code: 311224

An employee was checking the inspection door to clean out any build up in the discharge chute. As the employee was heating the peanuts in the cooker to extract oil, he noticed embers and smoke in the discharge chute. The employee used a fire extinguisher to put out the embers and continued his work. As the employee opened the machine door next to the portal on the discharge chute, oxygen entered the chute and caused the peanuts to combust. A fireball shot out of the door and burned the employee's face, chest, and arms.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle or machinery fire
code_source: title: Juice, oil, and fat extractors
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate