Incident date: 2018-04-19
NAICS industry code: 211111

An employee was inserting a hand held wand with a burning cloth attached to the end into a 4" opening of the main burner valve to ignite the pilot. The flame ignited residual gas and burned the employee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Coal, natural gas, petroleum fuels and products, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate