Incident date: 2018-08-28
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was training another employee on how to light the back part of a paver and set his butane torch down on the paver. When the paver was later started, its doors closed on the torch, causing it to bend, be punctured, and blow up, at which point the employee jumped from the paver. He suffered burns to both arms, his nose, and forehead, as well as a possible broken left heel.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Welding, cutting, and blow torches
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate