Incident date: 2018-01-25
NAICS industry code: 325110

Two employees were performing maintenance and troubleshooting on the B side of a reactor catalyst feed system when the tubing failed on the A side and caused an explosion of hydrocarbon products. Both employees received thermal burns and were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, unspecified
code_source: title: Other special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low