Flash Fire in Confined Space Prompts Cal/OSHA Citation
Industrial-service provider Shar-Craft Inc. is facing $82,090 in Cal/OSHA fines stemming from the agency’s investigation into a flash fire that burned an industrial painter inside a metal tank.
On Dec. 17, 2013, the worker was spraying a flammable coating on the inside walls of a large steel tank when a fire was ignited by a portable halogen light. The 37-year-old man was rescued but spent three days in the burn unit at San Joaquin Community Hospital.
