A laborer working in a pulp mill went into an old, unused control room for his lunch break. Warning lights were flashing indicating a potentially dangerous situation with a plugged pressure sensing device. The worker; however, had not been trained to be aware of what the flashing lights meant. Just after he entered the control room, a large amount of extremely hot product, which was under high pressure, erupted from a digester in the adjoining room. It blasted through a weak area in a wall and landed right where the laborer was sitting. He was extensively and severely burned by steam, […]
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