Clean Harbors

An employee was adding production material to a machine by hand and watching the canning process. One of the products was loaded upside down causing it to detonate. This set off a chain reaction of nearby products, causing a flash fire. The employee suffered severe burns across 80% of his back, 60% of his chest, and 90% of his left arm. He was hospitalized.

Three employees were plugging an oil and gas well when one of the onsite explosives detonated prematurely, injuring one employee. The employee sustained multiple lacerations and fractures to the waist and legs.

Employees were setting up for an event to showcase fireworks for a municipality. The injured employee was setting up the tubing for the mortar shells when a mortar shell ignited. An employee sustained burns to their face, arms, and abdomen.

An employee was preparing pyrotechnic materials utilizing screen/sieve equipment that is operated in a unoccupied bay that is interlocked. After sieving/screening was completed, the employee entered the bay to manually transfer the pyrotechnic material and noticed materials were stuck to the sieve/screen. The materials detonated during the transfer. The employee sustained first-degree burns to the face and third-degree burns to the hands.

An employee was installing articles of pyrotechnics when pyrotechnics misfired and blasted, resulting in injury to their hands.