Incident date: 2016-01-26
NAICS industry code: 331315

On or about January 26, 2016, at 2:45 a.m., an employee was practicing cutting a 3/4-inch steel plate on a cutting table with an oxygen propane torch when his 100-percent cotton work shirt caught on fire, causing second degree burns over 12 percent of his chest and stomach.  He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source
code_source: title: Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate