OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777862
ACTION FILM INC.
PARK CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee killed by blasting charge
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was setting blasting charges for the special effects in a movie usin g a detonator cord and electric primers for the charge. After putting the detona tor cord and primer together, Employee #1 went to wire the primer leads to the w ires used to shoot the charge. The ON switch must have been activated because wh en wires touched wires, the charge went off. Employee #1 was killed. The charge was not in the hole, but next to Employee #1.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 615
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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