Incident date: 2023-12-12
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was diagnosing an alarm on a compressor skid. They were changing out a liquid level switch on the natural gas compressor system when there was a flash fire/explosion. The employee sustained burns to their face and ear, and severe burns to both hands. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fire, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate