Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,991Records 71,450Employers 85,836Hospitalizations 27,959Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-11-30

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221448624

317729951 - ST PAUL FIRE PROTECTION DIST

Event
Explosion, Fire, Fire Brigade/Department
NAICS
922160
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#345846158
Employer profile
317729951 - ST PAUL FIRE PROTECTION DIST
Summary number
221448624
Report ID
1054113

Event description

Firefighter dies after explosion

Investigation abstract

At 4:03 a.m. on February 3, 2022, the St Paul Fire Department was dispatched to a fire at a chicken ranch farm. An employee, a firefighter, was advancing the hose line, when an explosion occurred. The other firefighters immediately gave CPR until the employee was life-flighted to OHSU, where shortly thereafter he was pronounced dead.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 30 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    417

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.