Incident date: 2023-10-02
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was cutting a metal pipe when an ember dropped onto the pipe. The employee went to pour water from a plastic bottle onto the pipe when it exploded due to gasoline in the bottle. The employee sustained burns to the face as well as a torn meniscus from moving out of the way.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate