OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #767160
WORK RULES,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,TANK
Event description
Employee killed in fall into slurry tank
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was preparing to begin sandblasting inside a 36 in. diameter horizon tal pipe from which an elbow had been removed. The elbow had penetrated the top of a slurry tank through an open hole 36 in. in diameter. The hole had not been covered and Employee #1 fell into the 32 ft. deep tank. The employee had a safet y belt and had been instructed to wear it at appropriate times, but he was not w earing it at the time of the accident. He did have on a sandblasting hood. As he fell, he hit a protruding steel baffle inside the tank and the hose on his helm et apparently caused the helmet to be jerked back on his head. Employee #1 suffe red a massive head injury and died approximately four hours later.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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