OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #765537
CONTINENTAL TRUCK WASH
LOS ANGELES, CA·
Event description
Employee killed in tanker truck explosion
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were cleaning a tanker truck that had recently hauled aviation fuel. An ignition source set off an explosion of the accumulated vapor s. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 54 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 35
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
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