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March 11, 2019 ID · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST
Thermocal Minerals of Idaho LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances

An employee was lighting a propane weed burner to heat the under side of a hammer mill. EE must have let the propane run too long before trying to light it. It apparently accumulated gas under the hammer mill flashing when EE lit it. It burned EE's face and hand.

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