| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-15 | Defiance | Ohio | Okuley's Pharmacy & Home Medical, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| On April 15, 2020, an employee was using an ethanol filter to make sanitizer. As the employee was using a pump to filter ethanol from one 5-gallon bucket (through tubing and a charcoal filter) to another, the ethanol started to spray out and immediately caught fire. The employee suffered second-degree burns to the face, hands, and arms. | |||||
| 2020-01-21 | Parshall | North Dakota | Spotted Hawk Development, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Ingestion of harmful substance |
| An employee mistakenly drank methanol that was in a soft drink bottle and sustained poisoning. | |||||
| 2019-08-09 | Aurora | Nebraska | Pacific Ethanol Aurora West, LLC | Arm(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was closing a valve when welding sparks ignited ethanol. The employee suffered second-degree burns to both arms. | |||||
| 2019-07-24 | Cordele | Georgia | Synergy Solutions Crisp County, L.P. | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was standing on top of a tanker truck while filling it with ethanol using a gravity-fed mechanism. As the employee was filling the ethanol through the top hatchway of the tanker truck, a flash fire occurred. The employee's shirt caught on fire and the employee jumped approximately 12 feet from the top of the tanker truck to the earthen ground below. The employee sustained burns to his torso and arms, as well as a fractured left leg. | |||||
| 2019-03-30 | Cairo | West Virgini | Jay-Bee Oil & Gas, Inc. | Multiple face locations | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| A well tender was putting methanol in a dump-line when the nipple broke off the line. Methanol sprayed into the employee's face and eyes; the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-03-29 | Houston | Texas | Resolco, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was preparing an IBC container for recycling when the ethanol that was in the container ignited and burned the employee's arms, chest, and legs. | |||||
| 2016-09-28 | Erie | Pennsylvania | Fox Construction, Inc. | Leg(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| While working in a ditch, an employee cut a test header off a piece of steel pipe. The test header was being lifted out of the ditch when it tipped to the side and some methanol, which had been used to clean the pipe, leaked out and onto the employee's legs. The methanol ignited and caught the employee's legs on fire. The employee was hospitalized with leg burns. | |||||
| 2016-09-06 | La Crosse | Wisconsin | Hartland Fuel Products, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| While transferring methanol from a storage tank into a tote an employee inhaled vapors from the product. | |||||
| 2016-04-12 | Dupo | Illinois | VERTEX CHEMICAL CORPORATION | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| Employee may have been exposed to methanol and experienced symptoms consistent with methanol poisoning. | |||||
| 2016-02-11 | Stanley | North Dakota | Jenson Pumping, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Ingestion of harmful substance |
| An employee mistakenly grabbed a bottle of methanol, believing it to be a water bottle, and took a drink. The employee suffered from methanol poisoning. | |||||
| 2016-01-24 | Alexander | North Dakota | Oasis Petroleum | BODY SYSTEMS | Ingestion of harmful substance |
| An employee mistakenly grabbed a bottle of methanol, believing it to be a water bottle, and took a drink. The employee suffered from methanol poisoning. | |||||
| 2015-12-14 | Niagara Falls | New York | DUREZ CORPORATION | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| After cleaning a process kettle with methanol and water, an employee emptied the tank and filled it with phenol. The employee then began to remove the plug and was splashed with phenol, suffering chemical burns to the right thigh, stomach, and face. | |||||
| 2015-10-26 | Warren | Pennsylvania | KCS Energy, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee working in the maintenance garage was conducting an oil change on a vehicle and was looking for a drum to collect the oil. The employee and another employee found a partially full drum that was labeled as methanol. The employees thought the drum potentially contained water. They took the drum outside and poured some of the contents on the ground. The employee that was conducting the oil change applied a lighter to the material on the ground. The material caught on fire. As the | |||||
| 2015-09-09 | Grove City | Ohio | CH Bradshaw Co. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was using a torch to heat up a stuck stud on the tank. The torch ignited methanol gas that was put in the tank the day before. The employee was thrown back 6 to 7 feet and received second and third degree burns to the abdomen. | |||||
| 2015-05-15 | Pasadena | Texas | Sprint-Transport | Upper and lower limb(s) | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was tightening a valve flange under a cargo tank but could not get the valve flange to tighten. The cargo tank contained methanol under pressure. He decided to remove the valve to let vapors out. He was using a cordless drill, which ignited the vapors. The vapors caused second degree burns to his right arm and the back of both legs. | |||||
| 2015-04-19 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | ORG Chem Group, LLC | Hand(s) | Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was on a catwalk in the boiler room washing out two 2,000 gallon mixing tanks that previously contained diethanolamine (DEA) with water. The water was draining into a 275 gallon poly tote. The tote exploded creating a fire. The employee received burns to the top of his hand and injured his ankle. | |||||