Incident date: 2020-11-20
NAICS industry code: 331314

An employee was changing out the propane bottle on a forklift. As he was connecting the line to the bottle, it started to spray propane onto his left hand. He suffered freezer burns to the thumb, index finger, and middle finger and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with cold objects or substances
code_source: title: Propane
code_nature: title: Other burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate