Incident date: 2016-02-16
NAICS industry code: 331110

Employee was relighting an industrial furnace that went out.  Gas had built-up in the furnace and when the employee attempted the relight, an explosion/flash fire knocking the employee backwards and causing burns to the face.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Natural gas
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate