Incident date: 2025-01-02
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was using a welding torch to cut up a boom from a fire truck. Oil was leaking from the boom's hydraulics and caught fire, which spread and burned the employee. The employee was hospitalized with third-degree burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonstructural fire  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Lubricating fluids
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  third degree or higher
code_body: title: Part of body  unspecified
severity: moderate