Incident date: 2015-10-21
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was purging the ambient air on the compressor displacing it with natural gas. The night before, an electrical storm had shorted the motor. While purging the line, a spark ignited the natural gas causing a flash fire. The employee received burns on his face and hands and was hospitalized.

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: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate