Incident date: 2022-07-11
NAICS industry code: 321113

Employees were starting the wood-fired burner of a kiln when flames and heat were discharged from the burner opening. Employee 1 was hospitalized with burns to both forearms and the abdomen and required surgery. Employee 2 was treated at the burn clinic and released.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Kilns
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate