OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #868844
CONFINED SPACE,TANK CLEANING,RESPIRATOR
Event description
TWO EMPLOYEES KILLED AFTER ENTERING CONFINED SPACE
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 of Mcgean-Roheo Incorporated, entered a scrubber wastewater cylinder tank that was 6 ft deep and 4 ft in diameter, to clean the tank. He was not wea ring respiratory protection. Employee #1 collapsed once inside the tank. Employe e #2 donned an air-purifying respirator and entered the tank in hopes of rescuin g Employee #1. Employee #2 also collapsed. The Fire Department arrived, and remo ved the employees from the tank, who had both been killed. While the cause of de ath was not determined, it is suspected that carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide w as the cause.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 58 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 9
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 19
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 2
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#2 Fatality Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 9
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 19
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 2
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