OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14469472
CONFINED SPACE,HEART ATTACK,VALVE,CARBON DIOXIDE
Event description
Employee died of heart attack in confined space
Investigation abstract
An employee was using carbon dioxide to blow out a boiler tube inside a confined space (mud drum). He had a heart attack when he tried to exit the mud drum afte r the flow of carbon dioxide could not be stopped.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 62 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 6
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
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