OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14535728
BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD
GRAND FORKS, ND·
Event description
Employee killed in 180 ft fall into fuel oil storage tank
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was attempting to set up pumping equipment when he fell 18 feet into a fuel oil storage tank and was killed. The fuel oil tank did not have a floor hole cover or guardrails.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 58 Male
- Nature of injury
- Bruise/Contus/Abras (3)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- FALL(SAME LEVEL) (4)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.