 |
|
-
- REPORT
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: 20
OCCUPATION: welding and flame
cutting
INDUSTRY:
operation of bulk oil plants
Industrial
sector: trade
ACCIDENT INFORMATION:
DATE OF
ACCIDENT: Confidential
PLACE: SUNDRE AREA: Calgary
region
NATURE OF INJURY:
concussion or skull
fracture
TYPE OF ACCIDENT:
explosions
SOURCE OF
INJURY:
radiating substances and equipment
chemicals (not
coal/petroleum products, hydrogen sulphide)
ACCIDENT
DESCRIPTION:
The worker was welding a stairway from the top
of one gasoline storage tank
down to another horizontal tank.
The worker was lying on top of the middle
tank of a line of
three vertical tanks running north to south. A horizontal
tank
was on the west side of the tank line. The tanks which were 6m in
height
by 3.6m in diameter previously held hydrocarbon
products. During the welding
operation the centre tank the
worker was working on exploded, throwing him to
the ground
approximately 57.3m away from the tank on the west side of the
site.
The centre tank which had not been cleaned, contained
sediment material about
152mm - 203mm deep containing volative
hydrocarbons.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE:
1984-01-09
UNSAFE ACT(S):
operating without authority,
failure to secure or warn
unsafe position/posture,
inappropriate operational position
UNSAFE
CONDITION(S):
hazardous spatial layout or work area
arrangement
INDIRECT CAUSE(S):
unsafe job
procedure
EMPLOYER ACTION(S):
eliminate unsafe
conditions
eliminate unsafe procedure
provide instruction,
training, supervision to workers
OHSO
ACTION(S):
inspections
approval of new procedures,
equipment, etc
meeting with company representatives
issue a
requisition or order
OTHER'S ACTION(S):
no
action
REGULATION(S): 00267076 00270076 00299081
|
|
 |
