Incident date: 2015-04-19
NAICS industry code: 325998

An employee was on a catwalk in the boiler room washing out two 2,000 gallon mixing tanks that previously contained diethanolamine (DEA) with water. The water was draining into a 275 gallon poly tote. The tote exploded creating a fire. The employee received burns to the top of his hand and injured his ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate