OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #708990
WHITMER BROTHERS LTD
WOODS CROSS, UT·
Event description
EXPLOSION AND FIRE, TANK TRAILERS
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1, WHO HAD BEEN EMPLOYED ABOUT ONE WEEK, WAS EITHER WORKING OR STANDIN G BETWEEN TWO TANK TRAILERS (A 40 FOOT BEALL AND A 27 FOOT COWBOY PUP). THE TRAI LERS WERE JOINED END TO END AND HOOKED UP TO A TRACTOR. THE FIRST TRAILER EXPLOD ED, FOLLOWED BY AN EXPLOSION OF THE REAR TRAILER. BOTH TRAILERS THEN CAUGHT ON F IRE. THE TRAILERS HAD PREVIOUSLY CONTAINED CRUDE OIL, AND HAD BEEN UNLOADED ABOU T 40 HOURS BEFORE. REPAIRS HAD BEEN MADE IN THE INTERIM. THE EMPLOYEE PROBABLY D IED INSTANTLY. AS OF THE DATE OF THIS REPORT, NO SOURCE OF IGNITION HAS BEEN DIS COVERED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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