Incident date: 2019-03-06
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was about to preheat 1-inch carbon steel with an oxygen/propylene torch. The torch caught fire, and the heat caused second-degree burns to the employee's hand through the leather glove.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle or machinery fire
code_source: title: Welding, cutting, and blow torches
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate