Incident date: 2017-03-22
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was cutting demo scrap with a gas and oxygen torch when he felt his back getting hot. After removing his jacket and shirt, he found a burn roughly the size of a sheet of paper in the middle of his back. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate