OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14295455
MATTINGLY CONSTRUCTION INCORPORATED
SUNDERLAND, MD·
Event description
Employee burned when motor ignites
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:45 a.m. on November 25, 1985, Employee #1, a mechanic with 15 day. The use of ppe was not required. years of experience, was repairing a gasoline-powered motor that was mounted on a trailer-type Rosco tack rig, SK6439. The rig is hauled by an industrial truck and is used to spread tack (tar) on a road surface before paving. Employee #1 w as having problems with the motor on the rig, which kept shutting off. When he d ismantled the sediment bowl on the motor to clean it and the lines, gasoline tha t had fallen on the clutch housing of the hot motor burst into flames. An availa ble fire extinguisher was used to put out the fire. Employee #1 was treated for burns at Calvert Memorial Hospital, Prince Frederick, MD, and released the same
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 518
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 10
- Task assigned
- 1
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