Incident date: 2018-09-04
NAICS industry code: 211112

An employee was walking by a room where a subcontractor had been working on a pipe and heard a hissing noise that made him think that gas was leaking. He evacuated the room and told the subcontract workers to leave when the gas ignited. The employee received burns to his hands, face, and shoulders.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Natural gas
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate