Incident date: 2017-11-17
NAICS industry code: 811310

Two employees were working on a pulverizer on a second-floor mezzanine. They stopped to allow utility workers to look into a different pulverizer, which had coal dust inside it and was approximately 20 feet away. The utility work produced a spark that ignited the coal dust, generating a fire ball that traveled horizontally and burned the two employees  arms and faces. One employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle or machinery fire
code_source: title: Compactors, crushers, pulverizers-earth, mineral
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate