105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #818443

STEEL,EXPLOSION,DOOR

Event
STEEL,EXPLOSION,DOOR
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
818443
Report ID
418800

Event description

EMPLOYEE KILLED DURING EXPLOSION

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was operating a control outside of an explosion containment area. He was struck by a steel door that was blown off of its hinges. Employee #1 was ki lled, suffering from severe trauma.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 29 M

    Nature of injury
    21
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    1
    Source
    43
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    6
    Environmental factor
    5
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.