Incident date: 2015-04-30
NAICS industry code: 238910

A 3-foot perforated pipe was being taken out of a trench for assembly.  The pipe had residual methane gas that was ignited when the McElroy fusion equipment was turned on.  An employee was severely burned and required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Methane gas
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate