OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #742791
BURN,CONSTRUCTION,EXPLOSION,GASOLINE
Event description
Employee burned in gasoline explosion
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, an 18-year-old carpenter's helper, was instructed to burn scrap mat erial at a job site. When he poured a cup of gasoline on the wood and cardboard pile and used a cigarette lighter to ignite the pile of scrap, the gasoline expl oded. Employee #1 suffered severe burns on multiple parts of his body.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 569
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 10
- Task assigned
- 1
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