OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #674044
HARVARD INDUSTRIES ANCHOR SWAN DIV.
EASLEY, SC·
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED WHEN EXPOSED TO TRICHLOROETHYLENE VAPORS
Investigation abstract
A DETREX AUTOMATIC DEGREASER BEGAN EMITTING TRICHLOROETHYLENE FUMES. WHILE ON TH IRD SHIFT, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS CALLED IN TO REPAIR IT. ALL THE OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE EVACUATED. EMPLOYEE #1 LEFT AND RETURNED THE NEXT THE NEXT MORNING TO EFFECT REP AIRS TO THE DEGREASER. HE BEGAN FEELING DIZZY AND NAUSEOUS FROM DEGREASER'S FUME S. HE WAS LATER FOUND UNCONSCIOUS AND SENT TO THE HOSPITAL, SUFFERING FROM TRICH LOROETHYLENE INTOXICATION. THE DEGREASER'S COOLING COILS WERE FOUND TO BE CLOGGE D AND INOPERATIVE.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 17
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 9
- Occupation code
- 519
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Hazardous substance
- 2490
- Task assigned
- 1
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