"Three men burned, one seriously, following the explosion""

The importance of wearing fire resistant clothing with face shields, safety glasses, hearing protection, etc. is highlighted in this incident.

In (city name omitted), a tank explodes in a factory: three men burned by molten metal

A serious work accident took place in a (remelt) factory in (city name omitted) on in May 2024. Three men were burned, one of them seriously, following the explosion of a tank.

The firefighters were called on (one afternoon during) May 2024 to the (company name omitted) site, for the explosion of a tank.

It was 4:30 p.m. when emergency services and law enforcement were called to intervene in (town name omitted), on the site of the (company name omitted) aluminum foundry plant. Three men were injured in a work accident.

A vat of molten metal explodes

The incident left three people injured, one of them seriously. This Tuesday afternoon, a tank at the (company name omitted) factory, located on (street and city name omitted), exploded, for no apparent reason, says a judicial source.

Three men were burned by spatters of molten metal. One of them, a 28-year-old man, was seriously injured. The other two, a 59-year-old employee and a 40-year-old employee, were slightly burned in the accident, the same source said.

The local fire department reports that the three employees of the factory, whose prognosis was not life-threatening, were taken care of by the (ems) and transported to the burns department.

We pray for all the injured workers to recover fully from their burns. We acknowledge that it will be a long road of recovery and pray that there are no medical complications.

We do not know what type of clothing the injured workers were wearing at the time of the explosion. But, with the injuries we wonder if they were wearing fire resistant clothing or not.

The quote “exploded, for no apparent reason, says a judicial source” we find disconcerting. We assume that this workplace was operating with a false safety belief. That is a task/procedure that is deemed safe. Not because a risk assessment was performed. But, because in great part that no incidents had previously occurred.

We have heard a response of “we always do it that way, we never had an incident.” History does not always equal safety. All too often when an incident occurs the investigation finds that the task/procedure was actually unsafe and only by shear luck that an incident did not occur previously.

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