Incident date: 2019-11-26
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was branding a tire. A piece of rubber came away from the tire and remained on the branding iron. When the employee flung the burning piece of rubber onto the floor, it caught rags on the floor on fire and the employee suffered burns to the left lower leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonstructural fire, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Brooms, mops, and other cleaning tools
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate