OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14460166
BURN,PPE,BOILER,HYDRAULIC FLUID,COMBUSTIBLE LIQUID
Event description
Employee Burned While Lighting Boiler
Investigation abstract
A boiler operator was lighting a burst wood-fired boiler. The fire in the boiler Management has instructed employees to first shut the fans off. No personal pro tective equipment had been worn while lighting the fire. had gone out because of a jam-up of the boiler's carburetor, which prevented mo re chips from falling down into the boiler. He took a pile of wood chips and pla ced them inside the boiler, just inside the door openings. He then extracted 0.2 5 gallon of hydraulic fluid from a 50-gallon container, pouring it into a 5-gall on container. He opened the boiler door and threw the hydraulic fluid in onto th e pile of wood chips. The hydraulic fluid contacted hot ash, causing it to ignit e. The flame blew back at him because he had failed to turn off the induced draf t and combustion air fans. He received first-degree burns to his nose and hands.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 10
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 696
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 10
- Task assigned
- 1
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