Incident date: 2020-09-13
NAICS industry code: 541380

An employee was running a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) standard with laboratory equipment when the equipment was knocked off the counter, causing the quick connect to fail. LPG then released and was ignited by the equipment's heating element. The employee received first and second degree burns on the right and left hands.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Petroleum fuels, distillates, and products, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate