OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14445308
BURN,FIREFIGHTER,COLLAPSE,FIRE,SCBA,FALL,SMOKE INHALATION,RESPIRATOR
Event description
SMOKE INHALATION AND BURNS FROM STRUCTURAL FIRE
Investigation abstract
ON JANUARY 7, 1985 AT APPROXIMATELY 0735, THE SAUK CENTRE, MINNESOTA FIRE DEPART ES OF EMPLOYEES #1 AND 2, AFTER THE FIRE WAS BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL, AND ALSO SUF FERED FROM SMOKE INHALATION. THE SURVIVING TWO EMPLOYEES WERE HOSPITIZED OVERNIG HT FOR OBSERVATION AND RELEASED THE FOLLOWING DAY. EMPLOYEE #3 RECEIVED BURNS TO HIS RIGHT WRIST AND THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS NECK. MENT RESPONDED TO A FIRE AT THE NOAHS ARK NITE CLUB ON THE NORTH END OF SAUK LAK E. THE FOUR EMPLOYEES WERE ALL MEMBERS OF THIS FIRE DEPARTMENT. EMPLOYEES #1, 2, AND 3 WERE ATTEMPTING TO GAIN ENTRY THROUGH THE DOOR ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE U PPER DECK, INTO THE BAR AREA, WHERE THEY BELIEVED THE FIRE TO BE LOCATED. THE DE CK THEY WERE STANDING ON COLLAPSED, DROPPING THEM INTO THE LOWER LEVEL (10 - 12 FOOT FALL) AND INTO THE FIRE. EMPLOYEE #3 WAS ABLE TO CLIMB TO SAFETY BUT EMPLOY EES #1 AND 2 COULD NOT, AND THEY SUBSEQUENTLY DIED FROM SMOKE INHALATION WHEN TH E STRAPS ON THEIR AIR PAKS BURNED THROUGH. EMPLOYEE #4 WENT TO RETREIVE THE BODI
Victims (4)
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 417
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 2
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#2 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 417
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 2
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#3 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 24
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 417
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 11
- Task assigned
- 2
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#4 Hospitalized Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 417
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 2
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