Explosion at waste facility leaves worker permanently disabled
Pipe being cut with torch wasn’t vented
Two workers in St. Augustine, Fla. suffered injuries while cutting into a gas supply pipe with a torch when residual gas ignited inside the pipe and exploded due to the pressure.
The March 2014 incident at Indianhead Explorations LLC, doing business as Indianhead Biomass Services, permanently disabled one employee and left the other with a leg injury. The explosion occurred as the workers were making modifications to the wood piping that supplied the gas and the gas heat exchangers.