Incident date: 2025-04-16
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was removing a gasket from the top of the open hatch of a heater treater to make weir adjustments on the low pressure vessel when metal-on-metal contact caused a spark that ignited residual gasses. The employee sustained burns to their face, neck and hands.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle or machinery fire
code_source: title: Heater treater
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
severity: moderate