OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #742114
CHEST,CLOTHING,IRON WORKER,FIRE,CONSTRUCTION,WELDING,SPARK,ARM,FACE
Event description
Employee severely burned when welding sparks ignite clothing
Investigation abstract
At 1:00 p.m. on December 29, 1988, Employee #1, an iron worker, was using jet ro n severely burned on his chest, left arm, face, and back. He was transported by ambulance to Francis Scott Key Hospital Burn Center. At this time, it is not kno wn why the clothing burned so rapidly. ds and an electric welder to weld steel connecting points onto a building. He wa s 60 ft in the air on the third level of a building under construction. He was t ied off with a safety belt and lanyard. Employee #1 was wearing long underwear u nder a clean fleece sweatshirt and new Carhartt bib overalls, over which he wore an unbuttoned flannel shirt. Welding sparks blew against his bib, which caught fire. The fire spread to the rest of his clothing, flaming wildly. Employee #1 w as unable to extinguish the flames or free himself. Several coworkers rushed to his aid, untied him, and tore off his still-burning clothes. Employee #1 had bee
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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