OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #848093
UNCONSCIOUSNESS,FIRE,SMOKE INHALATION
Event description
EMPLOYEE DIED OF SMOKE INHALATION FROM FIRE IN BUILDING
Investigation abstract
AROUND 3:02 AM ON MAY 13,1987, A FIRE BROKE OUT IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF A MOUNT START-UP STATIONARY ENGINEER AND TWO SECURITY GUARDS. NONE OF THESE THREE INDIV IDUALS WERE AWARE OF THE UNTIL THEY WERE NOTIFIED BY THE FIRE FIGHTERS ENTERING THE BUILDING. ING ROOM. THE MOUNTING ROOM WAS LOCATED IN THE SOUTH MIDDLE SECTION OF THE 20TH FLOOR OF A MULTI FLOOR STEEL, CONCRETE AND GLASS OFFICE BUILDING OF RECENT CONST RUCTION. THE BUILDING HAD 32 STORIES AND 3 SUB BASEMENTS. THE BASEMENTS WERE CON NECTED TO OTHER BUILDINGS OF THE COMPLEX. THE APPROXIMATE BUILDING DIMENSIONS WE RE: 125 FEET WIDE, 275 FEET LONG AND 400 FEET HIGH. EMPLOYEE #1, A PRODUCTION SU PERVISOR, WAS WORKING ALONE OVERNIGHT ON THE 20TH FLOOR. SHE WAS DISCOVERED, UNC ONSCIOUS, BY THE FIRE DEPT IN A NORTHEAST CORNER OFFICE. SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD OF SMOKE INHALATION. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES. THE BUILDING STAFF CONSISTED OF A
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 F
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
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