OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1008523
BUFFALO CITY FD
BUFFALO, NY·
Event description
Fire fighter inhales smoke
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:10 p.m. on December 30, 1987, Employee #1, a fire fighter, r e-entered a burning 2 1/2 story wooden frame building to extinguish a fire in th e attic. Apparently the breathing tube on his self-contained breathing apparatus ruptured, exposing him to smoke from the fire. He reached a nearby window where he was assisted down a ladder by fellow fire fighters. Employee #1 was hospital ized for 4 hours for treatment for smoke inhalation, and later released.
Victim
-
#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 417
- Human factor
- 19
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.