OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #982116
DTOP SAN JUAN
SANTURCE, PR·
Event description
One employee killed, one injured when repaired tire explodes
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were fixing a 13.00 by 24 tire on a Caterpillar grade r in a heavy equipment garage. When they were ready to roll the repaired tire to put it on the box of the truck, it exploded. The coworker was critically injure d, suffering fractures of both arms and legs and his pelvis. Employee #1 was kil led.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 2
- Occupation code
- 503
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 2
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