Incident date: 2018-10-27
NAICS industry code: 238910

Employees were constructing a tank battery and removing a bottom hatch with a grinder when a fire and explosion occurred from an empty tank. The injured employee received body burns that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, unspecified
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate