Incident date: 2015-09-23
NAICS industry code: 336310

An employee was performing maintenance when he found a broken solenoid valve on the dust collector machine. He reassembled  the valve of the unit, which performed an automatic blow-down of the dust collector unit. A static charge occurred, causing an explosion that severely burned the employee's body.

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: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate