Incident date: 2017-03-15
NAICS industry code: 561790

An employee was inside the boiler removing broken pieces of refractory from the hopper using a water hose when the wall directly in front of the employee released hot ash and refractory onto the employee. The employee rolled into the hopper and was engulfed by the hot ash and debris. The employee suffered burns to 65% of his body ranging from first to third degree burns. The worst of the burns were to his legs and ankles.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate