OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777540
FLUOR DANIEL INC.
MAGNA, UT·
Event description
Employee injured when struck by cap of water line
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was going to remove a 6 inch cap from a 6 inch pressurized water lin e so that a valve and fire hydrant could be installed. When he removed one of th e wing nuts from one of two all-thread bolts that held the cap in place, the cap blew off, fracturing his chest. He was hospitalized. The employee had worked on another 6 inch line on the main line two days before, and had tested that line before working on it to see if it was under pressure.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 585
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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