Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Other poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects, n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The International Metals Reclamation Company LLC, 1 Inmetco Drive, ELLWOOD CITY, PENNSYLVANIA 16117
on , Other poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects, n.e.c., affecting the body systems.
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Final narrative
An employee was walking/working along the casting line as steel was being cast. He was wearing a PAPR unit around his waist line when his PAPR cartridge overheated and started to burn, filling his PAPR mask with smoke. The employee suffered from flu-like symptoms caused by smoke inhalation.