OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #825984
CHARLES WILLIAM STREETT, INC.
ELKRIDGE, MD·
Event description
One employee burned, one suffers stress in explosion
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 were inside a building, transferring flammable Tuff-N-Dri ba sement waterproofing compound from one drum to another. The vapors ignited and E mployee #1 suffered third-degree burns over 30 percent of his body. He required extensive skin grafts and a long hospital stay with ongoing physical therapy. Em ployee #2 suffered chest pains because of the stressful situation. He was treate d and released.
Victims (2)
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 10
- Hazardous substance
- 0810
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#2 Hospitalized Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 10
- Hazardous substance
- 0810
- 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.