OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14348015
INTERSTATE LEAD COMPANY, INC.
LEEDS, AL·
Event description
Employee dies of burns sustained cleaning incinerator tank
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:00 p.m. on June 27, 1988, Employee #1 was cleaning the inside of an incinerator tank. The tank, which is located above the blast furnace, has an outside diameter of 8 feet and a length of approximately 20 feet. A large ho se had been run through an opening at the top of the tank and Employee #1 was us ing the hose to wash flue dust, which collects during normal operation, off the inside walls. Employee #1 was covered with either hot flue dust or steam generat ed from the mixture of the hot material and water. Consequently, he suffered sec ond- and third-degree burns to 90 percent of his body. He later died at the hosp ital.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 23
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 11
- Task assigned
- 1
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