Incident date: 2024-06-12
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was heating up a discharge refrigerant line on a compressor using a torch to replace the compressor. When he went to remove the line from the compressor, a fireball exited the compressor line burning his left forearm, wrist and hand. The employee was hospitalized for second-degree burns to the left forearm and hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Flash fire
code_source: title: Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  second degree
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate