OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14413470
COMPRESSOR,GAS,NITROGEN,EXPLOSION,HIGH PRESSURE,PIPE,STRUCK BY,FLYING OBJECT,GAS WELL DRILLING
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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