OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14527816
MAINSTREAM SHIPYARDS & SUPPLY, INC.
GREENVILLE, MS·
Event description
Employees die from explosion in barge wing tank
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 were cleaning a port wing tank (void) #9. Port repairs had b ilation fan) and Employee #1 up and over the port side. Employee #1 fell 16 ft a nd landed on the work flat. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Employee #2 was taken to a hospital burn center and died five days later. een completed except for welding (filling) gouged seams on the outside. A cuttin g torch and hoses had been lowered into the wing tank, but Employees #1 and #2 d iscovered a leak in the fuel gas line and had a third employee pull the hose and torch back out of the hold so that repairs could be made. An explosion-proof fo rced air blower was blowing air into the hold; it was positioned half on and hal f off the hatch. Employee #1 was on a fixed ladder and Employee #2 was at the bo ttom of the triangular-shaped, 14 ft deep by 24 ft long, compartment. When fuel gas residual ignited, unbeknownst to the employees, it blew the air blower (vent
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 11
- Source
- 15
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 15
- Hazardous substance
- 1652
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Hazardous substance
- 1652
- Task assigned
- 1
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