Incident date: 2022-10-06
NAICS industry code: 213111

Employees were making a tie-in on an 8-inch natural gas line by attaching two squeeze-off tools to shut off the line. When the polyethylene pipe was cut, one of the squeeze-off tools failed, causing a leak that resulted in an ignition. One employee was burned over about 50 percent of their body; the other was burned over about 10 percent.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Natural gas
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: low