Incident date: 2020-11-06
NAICS industry code: 221119

Two employees were vacuuming the top of a seal pot for a boiler, using a 6-inch steel flex hose. An eruption of molten ash blew back onto the employees and burned the employees on the face and neck. Both employee were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Molten or hot metals, slag
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Head and neck
severity: low