Incident date: 2019-02-23
NAICS industry code: 325998

At 10:30 a.m. on February 23, 2019, an employee of Starfire Corporation sustained a laceration of his leg and burn injuries to his back from the premature ignition of a fireworks shell as he was loading the shell into the mortar tube in preparation for a fireworks aerial display.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pyrotechnics, fireworks
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate