Incident date: 2021-04-12
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was using a plasma cutter to cut the top of a barrel that had been filled with flammable liquid. The barrel, with residual antifreeze under pressure, exploded. The employee suffered a jaw fracture and a brain bleed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
code_source: title: Containers-pressurized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate