OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #675785
COMPRESSOR,UNCONSCIOUSNESS,CPR,INADEQUATE MAINT,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,INHALATION,AIR CONTAMINATION,CARBON MONOXIDE,RESPIRATOR
Event description
Employee overexposed to carbon monoxide by faulty respirator
Investigation abstract
Employee #1's was doing abrasive blasting wearing a hood respirator. After 10 to m. 15 minutes Employee #1 felt lightheaded and fainted. A coworker removed his hel met and noted that Employee #1 lacked facial color and that his eyes were rolled back; he was not breathing and his heartbeat was faint. CPR was administered un til an ambulance arrived and removed Employee #1 to a hospital, where he apparen tly fully recovered. The respirator that Employee #1 had been wearing was suppli ed by an Ingersoll-Rand compressor that lacked an exhaust stock. The air was exh austed directly under the metal cowling. The air system also lacked carbon monox ide filters or alarm devices. Carbon monoxide levels in the hood exceeded 600 pp
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 29
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 19
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Hazardous substance
- 0560
- Task assigned
- 2
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