Incident date: 2023-05-01
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was hot tapping into an 8-inch natural gas line to reroute the pipe. A spark from the cutting came into contact with condensate within the pipe, ignited, and blew out both ends and where the cut was occurring. The employee sustained burns to the left ear, face, arm, and leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Natural gas
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate