Incident date: 2020-07-14
NAICS industry code: 332811

An employee was inspecting the inside of an industrial heat treating furnace. A defective relay allowed natural gas to flow into an area of the furnace and the gas was ignited by the radiant tube heating system. The employee was directly in front of a fireball that came from the oven, and sustained second degree burns to the head, face, and neck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Forging machinery
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Head and neck
severity: moderate