OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #517052
BURN,CLOTHING,ACETYLENE TORCH,CONFINED SPACE,WORK RULES,FIRE,CONSTRUCTION,PIPE
Event description
Employee burned to death by oxyacetylene torch
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, the job foreman, entered a 24 inch diameter, horizontally-drilled p ipe located about 10 feet below ground. Approximately 75 feet from the entrance of the pipe, he began to heat the metal using an oxyacetylene torch. After he us ed the torch for five minutes, his clothes caught on fire and he was engulfed in flames. He could not be rescued immediately from the confined space due to the lack of a safety line, and he was not wearing an air line respirator. After the fire department arrived, the foreman went into the pipeline with a scba and pull ed out Employee #1. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 19
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
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