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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: 32
OCCUPATION: truck
drivers
INDUSTRY:
trucking by tanker
Industrial sector:
transportation, communications and utilities
ACCIDENT
INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT: Confidential
PLACE:
VALLEYVIEW AREA: Grande Prairie 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:
The worker
drove his loaded truck to an unloading dock. He was seen
connecting
the unloading hose to the dock facilities. He was
later found unconscious on
the catwalk on top of the truck
tank. There were 3 hatches opened in the top
of the tank that
contained crude oil (oil containing H2S gas) and the
deceased
was overcome by
H2S.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE: 1980-11-07
UNSAFE
ACT(S):
safety device removed or rendered inoperative
unsafe
position/posture, inappropriate operational position
UNSAFE
CONDITION(S):
improper ventilation
adverse
weather/environmental conditions
INDIRECT CAUSE(S):
worker's
deliberate disregard of known safe procedures
unsafe job
procedure
EMPLOYER ACTION(S):
eliminate unsafe
conditions
provide instruction, training, supervision to
workers
OHSO ACTION(S):
approval of new procedures,
equipment, etc
issue a requisition or order
OTHER'S
ACTION(S):
no action
REGULATION(S): 26776048
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