At 12:30 p.m. on January 31, 2023, Employee #1, 45, performed cathodic protection maintenance on a 4-inch natural gas pipeline. Employee #1 removed the resin coating off the external portion of the pipeline to test the hull thickness of the pipeline. While removing the coating, the pipeline exploded.
Employee #1 was killed by immolation.
Employee #2 and Employee #3 were injured from the heat, blast, and vapors of the explosion and were hospitalized.
Source: https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/accidentsearch.accident_detail?id=153352.015