Teen worker burned in blast

SAINT-AUGUSTIN-DE-DESMAURES — A 16-year-old worker suffered serious burn injuries when a drum he was cutting exploded at Environnement Sanivac’s plant in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, a suburb of Quebec City.

On December 4, the worker was using a cutting torch to slice into a drum that was not completely empty, reports Jacques Nadeau, a spokesperson for the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST) in Montreal.

“We told them to stop their operations and make sure they do not cut any drums that had been used with potentially flammable liquids inside,” Nadeau says. It is believed a petroleum derivative was in the drum at the time of the explosion.

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