Incident date: 2019-05-14
NAICS industry code: 488390

Employees were cutting heating coil pipes using an electric reciprocating saw inside a starboard cargo tank on a barge. Gasoline vapors ignited and employees received first, second, and third degree burns. Two employees were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low