# IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST
> MSHA accident `220112490032` · 09/01/2011 · Frasure Creek Mining, LLC.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Greaser, Grease man, Oiler, Lube man, Dragline oiler
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** FLAME,FIRE,SMOKE,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- **Days lost:** 205
- **Mine experience:** 5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Essar Minerals Canada Limited
- **Operator:** Frasure Creek Mining, LLC.
- **Mine:** [1519068](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1519068)
## Narrative

Employee had turned off a gasoline fired water pump and was refueling it when the gasoline ignited, burning his left arm, left leg, left side and the left side of his neck. He was flown to Augusta Georga where he is receiving treatment for burns to his left arm (the most serious of the injuries).

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