OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #848572
BURN,VENTILATION,FLAMMABLE VAPORS,WORK RULES,FIRE,LIGHTING FIXTURE,SPRAY PAINTING,STORAGE TANK,EXPLOSION
Event description
Employee dies from burns after tank fire
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:00 p.m. on September 29, 1988, Employee #1 was applying an ep ion could have been prevented. oxy paint with a spray gun on the interior of a 60,000 gallon circular above gro und storage tank inside a cookie bakery. The two-part epoxy cast emitted flammab le vapors. The lighting source used inside the tank was a portable, hand-held fl ood lamp that was not explosion proof. The flood lamp was either dropped or bump ed, breaking its bulb and igniting the flammable vapors. The subsequent fire bur ned Employee #1 over 90 percent of his body. He died the next day. If an explosi on proof lamp fixture for Class 1, Division 1 locations had been used and/or an air horn had been used for evacuating explosive vapors from the tank, the explos
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 10
- Task assigned
- 1
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