Incident date: 2023-10-02
NAICS industry code: 211120

An employee was hand tightening bolts at the manway of a vertical tank at an oil and gas site. The employee hooked up the plumbing and hatch to the tank. They had begun to install a rubber seal around the hatch when a flash fire occurred. The employee sustained a burn to the face and third degree burns to the left arm requiring hospitalization.

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