OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14563068
BROOKSET BUS CORP.
BOHEMIA, NY·
Event description
Employee burned when soaked with gasoline while welding
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using an oxygen-acetylene torch to weld a sign to the top of a s chool bus in the southwestern bay of a six-bay garage. While performing this tas k, he squirted water from a water extinguisher onto a coworker who was walking b y the bus. In retaliation, the coworker picked up a hubcap full of liquid that h e thought was water (but which was actually gasoline) and threw it at Employee # 1, who was welding. As a result of this mutual horseplay, Employee #1 suffered t hird-degree burns over 90 percent of his body. The causal factors were lack of s upervision, unsafe work practices and, most importantly, an open container of ga soline in the garage.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 10
- Hazardous substance
- 1340
- Task assigned
- 1
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