Incident date: 2019-07-24
NAICS industry code: 562920

An employee was standing on top of a tanker truck while filling it with ethanol using a gravity-fed mechanism. As the employee was filling the ethanol through the top hatchway of the tanker truck, a flash fire occurred. The employee's shirt caught on fire and the employee jumped approximately 12 feet from the top of the tanker truck to the earthen ground below. The employee sustained burns to his torso and arms, as well as a fractured left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Ethanol
code_nature: title: Fractures and burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate