Incident date: 2019-08-19
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was setting a pier column and needed to cut a piece of rebar with a gas-powered saw. When the employee started the saw to cut the rebar, it exploded and his pant leg caught on fire, burning the back of his left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Saws-powered, except chainsaws
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate