A guy from Melbourne is suing his former employer after a gas-fueled torch exploded in his face, causing second-degree burns.
September 15, 2023, started out as a normal Friday for tradie Khaileb Ziday.
The 27-year-old from the northern suburbs was working on a Bendigo site for Solidity, a screw piling company which manufactures and installs steel poles used during the construction of building foundations.
He had been tasked with cutting down about 230 of the piles, or steel posts, that had been installed. Ziday was using an oxy-acetylene torch, which is a device that uses oxygen and gas to weld or cut metals.
The flame produced by the torch can heat up to more than 2000C. Ziday was halfway through the job when the torch ran out of oxygen, a problem that should have been an easy fix.
It was anything but. “I took the old (oxygen) bottle out, put a new one in … just opened up the valve … (and) pretty much a fireball came out and blew out my face,” Ziday told 7NEWS.com.au.
He suffered burns to his lower stomach, right hand, forearm and some of his face.“I felt a hot pain around my stomach, I thought I was on fire,” Ziday said. “I literally pulled my shirt off which I thought was burning and the only thing I had on me still were my gloves. One of them was burnt from the fireball.”
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