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CHARACTERISTICS:
DONOR: Alberta Community and Occupational
Health
Occupational Health and Safety Division
JURISDICTION:
ALBERTA
REPORT TITLE: Fatality Investigation Data
Base
INFORMATION ABOUT DECEASED:
NAME: Confidential
SEX: Male AGE: 19
OCCUPATION: rotary well drilling and related
occupations
INDUSTRY:
natural gas processing
plants
Industrial sector: mines, quarries and
oil
ACCIDENT INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT:
Confidential
PLACE: LEGAL DESCRIPT AREA: Edmonton
region
NATURE OF INJURY:
asphyxia (suffocation/drowning) or
strangulation
TYPE OF ACCIDENT:
contact with gases/fumes by
inhalation (lack of oxygen)
SOURCE OF INJURY:
hydrogen
sulphide exposure
ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION:
Worker was
engaged in measurement of the liquid level in a 4.9m oil
storage
tank. An estimated 10 minutes following an unclear
radio communication with
the worker, a second worker,
dispatched to the scene, found the deceased lying
inverted on
the stairway leading to the tank walkway, in an unconscious
state.
(Note: possible inhalation of a fine aerosal of liquid
hydrocarbon droplets)
INVESTIGATION:
DATE:
1981-06-20
UNSAFE ACT(S):
no unsafe act identified
UNSAFE
CONDITION(S):
improper ventilation
INDIRECT CAUSE(S):
no
indirect cause identified
EMPLOYER ACTION(S):
other
OHSO
ACTION(S):
meeting with company representatives
OTHER'S
ACTION(S):
unknown
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