Incident date: 2015-07-29
NAICS industry code: 311513

An employee was cutting open a steel barrel. He set the plasma torch/cutter on a barrel beside him and the barrel exploded. The force of the explosion broke his arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Explosion, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate