Incident date: 2024-09-03
NAICS industry code: 611310

On September 2, 2024, at about 5:10 PM, an employee was warming an ethanol solution in a glass container with a heat gun. The glass container broke and the ethanol ignited, resulting in second-degree burns to the employee's torso and third-degree burns to his right hand and arm that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Flash fire
code_source: title: Ethanol, methanol, monohydric alcohols
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  third degree or higher
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate