Incident date: 2022-01-26
NAICS industry code: 237120

A Turner employee had been assigned to remove exterior piping, valves, and flanges on a tank. The employee noticed flames coming from erosion holes in the top of the tank and evacuated the work area, headed for a maintenance shop. As they reached the shop, the tank exploded. The employee was knocked down by the blast and burned by the flames.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fire, unspecified
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate