Incident date: 2019-10-17
NAICS industry code: 311611

Employees were performing normal daily tasks within the rendering department when a natural gas explosion occurred in the furnace of the blood dried system. Two employees were hospitalized with burns and other injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, unspecified
code_source: title: Natural gas
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low