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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: 40
OCCUPATION: mining and quarrying (including
oil and gas fields)
INDUSTRY:
gas & oil well blow out
control, incl. firefighting
Industrial sector: mines, quarries
and oil
ACCIDENT INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT:
Confidential
PLACE: LODGEPOLE 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:
When a group
of specialists attempted to control a wild well, a fire
occurred
which destroyed the drilling rig. Work then commenced
to remove the rig debris
from the well site and the fire was
extinguished by explosives. Work then
resumed to bring the well
under control. While attempting to lower a B.O.P.
device onto
the well casing in what was expected to be a final step in
bringing
the well under control, two workers were overcome by
H2S and died.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE:
1982-11-17
UNSAFE ACT(S):
safety device removed or rendered
inoperative
UNSAFE CONDITION(S):
improper
ventilation
adverse weather/environmental
conditions
defective tools, equipment, materials or
supplies
INDIRECT CAUSE(S):
worker's lack of experience or
knowledge
OHSO ACTION(S):
inspections
issue a requisition
or order
approval of new procedures, equipment, etc
OTHER'S
ACTION(S):
inquest held (into fatal accident)
by government
agency other than OHSD, WCB or judiciary
REGULATION(S):
27076016
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