Incident date: 2019-08-24
NAICS industry code: 311611

On Saturday, August 24, 2019, at approximately 2:45 AM, an employee was carrying a lithium ion battery in his pocket when the battery failed and exploded, causing a burn injury to the employee's right leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Batteries other than automotive
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate