Incident date: 2017-03-05
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee was cutting the bolt heads off carrier flights of conveyor chain when the oxygen hose on the torch unit sprung a leak and the oxygen ignited. The employee's shirt caught on fire and the employee was burned on the left side of his chest.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source
code_source: title: Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate