Incident date: 2018-11-17
NAICS industry code: 326150

An employee was starting a plastic extruding machine when the die area caught fire, causing third degree burns to the employee's neck, nose, and ears.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle or machinery fire
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Head and neck
severity: moderate