Incident date: 2021-09-02
NAICS industry code: 333996

An employee was taking a break by a baghouse after shoveling hot pellets that were being expelled from a cooler. While the pellets were still being expelled from the cooler hopper, a flame shot out of the discharge pipe, then backdrafted up the pipe into the cooler and then into the bag house. The employee suffered burns to the hands and arms from the resulting explosion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Dust explosion
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate