Incident date: 2021-02-01
NAICS industry code: 213112

Employees had been pumping out oil and gas waste water from a tanker truck. Vapors/fumes from the condensate mixed in with the waste water caught fire when a torpedo heater started up and a spark shot out of the back. Two employees sustained multiple second and third degree burns and were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
code_source: title: Coal, natural gas, petroleum fuels and products, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low