OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14394167
BRICE BLDG. CO. INC.
HAMMOND, LA·
Event description
Six Employee Overcome by Carbon Nonoxide
Investigation abstract
At 7:15 p.m. on May 3, 1988, two employees from Gallo Mechanical Contractors, In -powered concrete cutter. One employee died and five others were hospitalized. ( The GMCI employee was listed on an injury line under the inspection number for B rice Bldg. Co.) c., were installing a drainage pipe for a sink in the floor of the change area i n the examination room of a linear accelerator that was being constructed. They were using a gasoline-powered masonry concrete cutter in an unventilated area to perform the cutting. Three employees from Brice Bldg. Co., Inc., were performin g demolition work nearby: drilling holes in the wall, chipping concrete, and cut ting reinforcements in the wall in the accelerator area (number 20). The three e mployees from Brice Bldg. Co., the two employees from Gallo Mechanical Contracto r, and one employee from GMCI were overcome by carbon monoxide from the gasoline
Victims (5)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 17
- Part of body
- 25
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 19
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Hazardous substance
- 0560
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#2 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 17
- Part of body
- 25
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 19
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Hazardous substance
- 0560
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#3 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 17
- Part of body
- 25
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 19
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Hazardous substance
- 0560
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#4 Hospitalized Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 17
- Part of body
- 25
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 19
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Hazardous substance
- 0560
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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