Incident date: 2018-03-22
NAICS industry code: 424690

The injured employee was preparing samples for testing and was processing nitric acid and oil and gas samples in a glass container when the glass container exploded resulting in burns and puncture wounds to the employee's hands and arms.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Burns and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate