Incident date: 2020-09-23
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was using a grinder to cut a barrel. The grinder caused a spark that ruptured the barrel.  The employee sustained a burn to the abdomen requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, unspecified
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate