Incident date: 2016-02-12
NAICS industry code: 331419

An employee was walking/working along the casting line as steel was being cast. He was wearing a PAPR unit around his waist line when his PAPR cartridge overheated and started to burn, filling his PAPR mask with smoke. The employee suffered from flu-like symptoms caused by smoke inhalation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Smoke, fire gases, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Other poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects, n.e.c.
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate