OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1004795
ROCHESTER FIRE DEPARTMENT
ROCHESTER, NY·
Event description
Fire fighter dies of smoke inhalation
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:00 a.m. on September 12, 1986, Employee #1, a paid fire fight er, entered a fire-engulfed building with several other fire fighters. A short t ime later, the employee left the building to get a hand lamp. Upon re-entering h e lost contact with his coworkers and yelled for help. His rescuers located him, but they had run out of air. Employee #1 collapsed. The rescuers immediately do nned full air cylinders and re-entered the smoke-filled building. They found Emp loyee #1 prostrate, wedged between some machinery, with his face piece removed. He died a short time later of smoke inhalation.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
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