Incident date: 2021-03-09
NAICS industry code: 333999

At 1:27 p.m. on March 9, 2021, two employees were troubleshooting a welder that would not start. An explosion occurred on the welder that blew out the side of the gas tank. One of the employees suffered burns to the body and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Trunk, unspecified
severity: moderate