Incident date: 2023-11-08
NAICS industry code: 484220

An employee was moving two totes of turpentine. Noticing that one of them was leaking, he stopped his forklift and began to look for the leak. The forklift caught fire, and the employee suffered severe burns. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle or machinery fire
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate