OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14460554
FIRE
Event description
FIRE (DESCRIPTION INCOMPLETE)
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEES WORKING ON THE 13TH FLOOR ON 3-2-84 IN THE DATA ENTRY ROOM WERE NOT IN NUMBER OF POINTS WHEN THEY WERE GETTING OUT OF THIS BUILDING DURING THE FIRE. ( THIS ABSTRACT NOT REVIEWED-NOT CLEAR WHAT HAPPENED. WG) FORMED OF THE FIRE IN THE BUILDING (40 EMPLOYEES EXPOSED) A INOPERABLE FIRE ALAR M SYSTEM, INADEQUATE STAIRWELL LIGHTING AND NO BACKUP LIGHTING SYSTEM WAS ENCOUN TERED BY EMPLOYEES IN THIS BUILDING. EMPLOYEES ENCOUNTERED OBSTRUCTIONS IN STAIR WELL AND ON STEPS WHICH CONSISTED OF CONSTRUCTION RENOVATION DEBRIS SUCH AS DIRT , DUST, PIECES OF WOOD, SHEET ROCKCLUTTERED ALL OVER WITH A 3" BY 4" PIECE OF PL YWOOD OR SHEETROCK WAS HUNG ACROSSONE OF THE LANDINGS BLOCKING 80% OF THE EMPLOY EES EXIT PATH A 3' LONG 2" BY 4" MATERIAL HAD BEEN JUTTED OUT INTO THE WALKWAY. NUMEROUS OPENINGS OF VARIOUS SIZES COULD HAVE DETOURED THE EMPLOYEES EXIT AT ANY
Victim
-
#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
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.