Incident date: 2015-12-30
NAICS industry code: 238910

Four Treco, Inc. employees were cleaning tank bottoms at a facility. During the course of bolting a man way cover onto the tank opening with hand tools, an unknown ignition source caused two of the tanks to ignite. One employee suffered second and third degree burns to his face.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Petroleum, crude oil
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate