OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #170248595
FLAMMABLE LIQUID,FLAMMABLE VAPORS,WORK RULES,FIRE,OIL WELL DRILLING,WELDER,PROPANE TORCH,EXPLOSION,GASOLINE,SMOKE INHALATION
Event description
Employee dies of smoke inhalation in welding shop fire
Investigation abstract
At approximately 6:15 a.m. on January 17, 1990, Employee #1 was refueling a gaso d been overcome by smoke and could not be revived. There was only one entrance/e xit to the building. line welder by pouring the fuel from a 5-gallon can into the welder tank. A liqu id propane torch, which was the heat source for the shop, was burning approximat ely 12 ft away from Employee #1. The corporation president heard an explosion an d ran out of his office at the rear of the building. Employee #1 was standing ou tside the office door. The president picked up a fire extinguisher and began fig hting the blaze that had started following the explosion. Employee #1 must have entered the office while the president was trying to fight the fire; as that was where the fire department found his body after the fire was extinguished. He ha
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 598
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
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