Incident date: 2017-11-14
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was cutting an empty 55-gallon barrel with a blowtorch when vapor inside the drum ignited and the lid hit the employee's face, lacerating it and breaking the cheekbone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Container caps, lids, covers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Cheek(s)
severity: moderate