Incident date: 2018-08-10
NAICS industry code: 331112

On 08/10/18, at approximately 2:00 AM, a maintenance employee was performing repairs to an oxygen line that was part of a plant's oxygen air system. The employee repaired the hose, tightened the clamp on the hose, and instructed another employee to turn the oxygen back on. When the oxygen was turned back on, the hose exploded in the maintenance employee's hands.  The employee was hospitalized with burns to both hands.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
code_source: title: Oxygen and oxygen compounds, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate