# FIRE
> MSHA accident `220100600024` · 02/24/2010 · Lafarge Building Materials Incorporated
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** ACCIDENT ONLY
- **Classification:** FIRE
- **Accident type:** Accident type, without injuries
- **Occupation:** —
- **Activity:** —
- **Injury source:** —
- **Nature of injury:** —
- **Body part:** —
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Lafarge S A
- **Operator:** Lafarge Building Materials Incorporated
- **Mine:** [3800305](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3800305)
## Narrative

There was a minor fire started when a piece of heated metal was discharged from a belt magnet into a plastic collection bin.   The piece of metal was likely coming from a plastics shredder, where it was likely caught and discharged - then collected by the belt magnet.  The damage was minor and corrected in the same day.  No one was injured during or as a result of the incident.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*