OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221482268
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
STERLING, VA·
Event description
Employee dies from overexposure to Nitrogen gas
Investigation abstract
At 8:38 a.m. on May 19, 2022, an employee purged the Nitrogen lines of the battery freezers in a lab room and the freezers filled up with Nitrogen gas. The victim closed himself into one of the freezers, where he eventually died from the overexposure to Nitrogen gas and lack of oxygen.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 M
- Event type
- 8
- Occupation code
- 55
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