OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14201560
WELDING,CARBON DIOXIDE,ARC WELDING,ARGON
Event description
EMPLOYEE SUFFERS FLASH BURNS
Investigation abstract
On April 25, 1989, four welders were standing side by side working in an assembl completely enclosed individual booth or screen was provided. Employee #1, a cert ified welder, suffered flash burns to both eyes generated by the other welder & was treated at a local hospital as an out patient. y line arrangement spot-welding, tack-welding and finish- welding auto seat fram es. The equipment used were four Airco Pulse-Arc 350 MIG wire arc-welding machin es using .035 copper covered steel wire plus 25 percent CO2 & 75 percent argon g as. The operators were wearing welder's helmets, gloves, sleeves & beanies. The only lateral protection from the rays created by each individual welder operator were four Singer Trans-Vue orange 5-foot-6-in. wide by 5-foot-6-in. tall safety shields placed on the floor between welders, plus one 3-foot-square shield plac e welding table located in a straight line between the individual operators. No
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 19
- Part of body
- 8
- Event type
- 10
- Source
- 37
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 12
- Hazardous substance
- 8370
- Task assigned
- 1
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