Incident date: 2025-08-02
NAICS industry code: 336411

On August 2, 2025, at 4:59 PM, a contract painter was painting an aircraft using an electrostatic paint gun in the paint booth hangar. He was placing the gun into a container of methyl ethyl ketone to clean when the solvent ignited. The employee was hospitalized with third-degree burns to his arms and legs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fire  small-scale, limited
code_source: title: Methyl ethyl ketone
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  third degree or higher
code_body: title: Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
severity: moderate