OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #686840
R.C.I. SALVAGE
WEST VALLEY CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee injured in acetylene hose explosion
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:45 pm on December 23, 1985, Employee #1 was stripping wrecked cars of usable parts. The oxygen-fuel welding cart he was using had splices in the fuel and oxygen hoses. The splice were made from used gas filters. One of th e filters apparently exploded when oxygen got into the fuel-line filter, causing rapid oxidation. The employee was hospitalized for injuries sustained in the ex plosion.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 19
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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