Incident date: 2023-10-04
NAICS industry code: 325199

An employee was under a railcar cleaning up dust with a vacuum hose. The hose caused a spark that caused a flash fire that ignited the employee's clothing. The employee sustained second- and third-degree burns over 83% of his body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fire, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Whole body
severity: moderate