Incident date: 2020-10-15
NAICS industry code: 115111

An employee was coming out of a room and turned off the light switch. An explosion occurred due to a propane line running through the ceiling in the office which provided gas to a heater. Three employees were injured; two of them were hospitalized with burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Propane
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low