Incident date: 2020-12-14
NAICS industry code: 532490

An employee was on a manlift welding a flange on a gas supply line. There was residual gas in the pipe and the pipe exploded. The employee sustained burns to approximately six percent of his body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate