Vehicle or machinery fire · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at BENNETT HEAT TREATING AND BRAZING CO., INC., 690 FERRY STREET, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07105
on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the face, unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee of Bennet Heat Treating was clinching metal parts and placing them into a quench tank. When he placed the clinched parts into the tank, flames erupted and burned his face. He was hospitalized.
An employee removed the spark plugs and was rotating an engine to evacuate condensate from the cylinders. An unknown source ignited the condensate and natural gas. The employee sustained burns to the back of his hands and upper leg area.
An employee was operating a front-end loader when a hydraulic line broke, causing the front-end loader to catch on fire. The employee jumped from the cab to the ground and sustained fractures to the T-6 vertebra and a heel.
An employee was moving two totes of turpentine. Noticing that one of them was leaking, he stopped his forklift and began to look for the leak. The forklift caught fire, and the employee suffered severe burns. He was hospitalized.
An employee was performing maintenance on a machine when part of an adjacent machine caught fire. The employee extinguished the fire and suffered smoke inhalation.
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