OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14524045
UNION CAMP CORP
DOVER, OH·
Event description
EMPLOYEE BURNED BY ERUPTING STEARIC ACID
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 7:30 AM ON OCTOBER 28, 1985, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS PREPARING TO PUMP STEARIC ACID FROM A TANK CAR. HE OPENED VALVES TO ALLOW STEAM TO BLOW INTO THE B OTTOM OF THE TANK CAR. STEARIC ACID SUDDENLY ERUPTED FROM THE TOP OF THE CAR HAT CH OPENING AND RAN DOWN THE SIDES OF THE CAR ONTO EMPLOYEE #1. HE WAS HOSPITALIZ ED, AND EVENTUALLY DIED OF HEART FAILURE FROM THE INJURIES HE RECEIVED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 4
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 9
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 9
- Task assigned
- 1
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