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Accident Summary Nr: 100915.015 - Employee Suffers Multiple Injuries When A Storage Drum Explo

Accident Summary Nr: 100915.015 -- Report ID: 0521100 -- Event Date: 11/17/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1278601.015	11/21/2017		424430	Knaus Cheese, Inc.

Abstract: At 7:00 a.m. on November 17, 2017, an employee was cutting the tops of 55 gallon drums with a plasma cutter for storing scrap metal. As the employee cut the si xth drum, it exploded and the employee suffered a fractured left femur and secon d degree burns to the back of his legs. The employee was hospitalized.

Keywords: burn, combustible liquid, drum, explosion, leg, struck by

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1278601.015	36	M	Hospitalized injury		Machinery maintenance occupations

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