OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #996769
GOLD BOND BUILDING PRODUCTS
SHOALS, IN·
Event description
Employee injured by gas furnace explosion
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:30 a.m. on May 11, 1989, Employee #1, an electrician, was he ies, but apparently suffered from a concussion and shock. He was transported by automobile to the hospital, where he was treated and released. The other employe e sustained no injuries. lping another electrician try to start a gas-fired furnace. Several attempts wer e made to light the furnace, which was controlled by an external electrical cont rol panel, by going through normal operating procedures, but the furnace would n ot remain lit. Employee #1 went to the end of the furnace and looked through an inspection sight glass. At the same time, the other electrician let the furnace go through the purge cycle, then used a jumper wire to bypass the electrical rel ays in the control box in an attempt to keep the burner lit. When the ignition b utton was pressed, the furnace exploded. Employee #1 sustained no physical injur
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 40 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Electronic repairers, communica. & indus. equip. (523)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- GAS/VAPOR/MIST/FUME/SMOKE/DUST (7)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.