OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14557995
H & R AUTOMOTIVE
ALAMOGORDO, NM·
Event description
Employee dies of burns sustained in explosives fire
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a co-owner were repairing a road hauling trailer that had been i nvolved in a traffic accident. It contained Class B propellant explosives. Emplo yee #1 was to cut away the trailer's roof support beams, which had bowed outward when the trailer flipped onto its side. The co-owner had water-soaked the trail er the evening before and again two hours prior to their beginning work. Employe e #1 had cut through three beams and was starting on the fourth when a flash fir e occurred. He sustained burns over 80 percent of his body and died several days later.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 44
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 10
- Task assigned
- 1
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#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
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