OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14295646
BURN,FLAMMABLE LIQUID,WORK RULES,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,FIRE,RUPTURE,CRANE CAB,PROPANE
Event description
Employee burned in flash fire in crane cab
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, the operator of a Grove RT 630 crane, had shut down the crane for r of the crane, not in the cab. The operator had no need for starting fluid at the time and if the delivery man had handed the fluid container to him he would hav e placed it in the toolbox. Employee #1 received on-the-job safety training and attended regularly scheduled onsite tool box safety meetings. He is required to wear a hard hat when he is outside the crane cab at a job site. efueling and lubricating by the company service truck. The delivery man placed a 7 to 8 oz can of Aviex starting fluid, a combination of ether and propane, on t he floor of the crane under the seat. The crane cab has a diesel fuel heater tha t is on a separate system from the crane motor, meaning the heater can be left o n while the motor is off. The crane operator was sitting in his cab during lunch hour with the motor off when the contents of the can expanded until the can rup tured and ignited into a brief flash fire that burned Employee #1. Tools, lubric ating materials, and other supplies are normally kept in a toolbox at the front
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 844
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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