OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14413470
ARCO OIL & GAS COMPANY
CRANE, TX·
Event description
Employee killed when compressor pipe explodes
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working in a gas processing plant, shutting down a high-pressure compressor containing nitrogen gas. A steel pipe exploded, and pieces of the pi pe struck Employee #1. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital 45 minutes lat er. The cause of the explosion was still under investigation at the time this re port was written.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- OTHBODYSYS (31)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- FLYING OBJECT ACTION (5)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.