Jore Yellowstone Tank Battery, WATFORD CITY, NORTH DAKOTA, 58854
NAICS
211120
Jurisdiction
1
Narrative
An employee was inspecting the facility. There was a frozen injection line. The employee was going to put methanol in the line to thaw it out. He isolated the line to pour in the methanol and was bleeding off the gas inside the isolated line. He opened up the needle valve. A flash fire occurred. He reached up to shut the needle valve and sustained burns to his left ear, face, and left hand. The employee was hospitalized.