Incident date: 2023-04-03
NAICS industry code: 332312

Two employees were working on an empty above-ground 2,500-barrel crude oil tank. Employee 1 was welding while employee 2 was watching. Employee 1 saw fire behind the welding smoke and notified employee 2. Before they could get off the tank, they both fell in the tank and sustained burns from the fire.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Small-scale (limited) fire
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low