Incident date: 2019-02-11
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was using a cutoff saw to cut a hole in the top of a digester tank. Sparks ignited the methane gas in the digester tank. He was thrown over a railing and fell. The methane gas explosion burned his back and midsection.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Methane gas
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate