Incident date: 2016-01-15
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was welding near waste motor oil.  The waste motor oil caught fire and the employee sustained first to third degree burns to the legs while putting the fire out.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Petroleum fuels, distillates, and products, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate