Incident date: 2023-01-30
NAICS industry code: 325991

An employee was using a 20-25-foot carbon steel rod in a reactor to ensure that residual product was not blocking the valves. A flash fire occurred inside of the hydrocarbon-enriched reactor, causing the employee to sustain burns from the employee's neck to their waist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fire, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate