Incident date: 2018-12-06
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee had just welded a clip onto the side of a tube column and then started to weld a second clip. The employee leaned back against the hot clip that had just been completed, and the employee's shirt caught on fire. The employee was hospitalized with burns to the back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source
code_source: title: Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate