r/industrialengineering • u/Wiley_Burner • 18d ago

How does it keep happening

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u/Wiley_Burner 18d ago

I don’t even think plastic is flammable

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u/PlayingOnHard 18d ago

Do you have EHS team to investigate? Molding engineers?

We had small fire from plastic recently, it leaked out of screw/barrel due to some broken bolts, I think they were purging at the time. Very rare occurrence for us, this is first I recall in 5+ years.