OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14375422
ALLIED MECHANICAL SERVICES, INC.
DOVER, OH·
Event description
EMPLOYEE BURNED WHEN COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL IGNITES
Investigation abstract
On June 26, 1987, Employee #1 was standing on a ladder about 15 ft above the flo or, in an empty building, and removing a large 10-ft by 10-ft by 20-ft bag of po lystyrene pieces and dust, hung on a cable. Employee #1 was cutting the cable, w hich was holding the bag with a cutting torch. When Employee #1 cut the record c able with the torch, the bag fell and caught fire from the torch's sparks. The f ire engulfed Employee #1 and he suffered burns. Employee #1 died from burn compl ications seven weeks later.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 23
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 10
- 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.