Incident date: 2024-03-06
NAICS industry code: 336413

On March 6, 2024, an employee was using a brush motor battery-operated drill to remove the fitting plate from inside a fuel cell using test fuel. The friction from the drill motor sparked the test fuel fumes causing a small fire that resulted in first and second degree burns to their right arm and face.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fire  small-scale, limited
code_source: title: Petroleum-based fuels
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  second degree
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate