Incident date: 2023-09-20
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was in the dry dock working on a cement barge. While using an oxy-acetylene torch for gas cutting the employee began to suffer cramping due to heat exposure and dehydration. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to environmental heat
code_source: title: Heat-environmental
code_nature: title: Effects of heat and light, n.e.c.
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate