Incident date: 2021-07-16
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was drying off a small area of a roof that was being installed using a 1-pound butane torch when the fumes from the bonding adhesive ignited and the roof caught fire. The employee sustained second degree burns on 25 percent of his body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonstructural fire, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Roofs, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate