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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: 21
OCCUPATION: foremen: chemicals, petroleum,
rubber, and plastic processin
INDUSTRY:
oilfield maintenance
and construction
Industrial sector: mines, quarries and
oil
ACCIDENT INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT:
Confidential
PLACE: GRASSY LAKE AREA: Medicine Hat
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 workers
were pumping oil out of a leaking 500 barrel crude oil storage
tank
in order to repair it. When the level of the oil had been
lowered to
approximately 2 to 3 inches above the flat tank
floor, one worker entered the
tank with a squeegee to help the
pump clean up the remaining oil. Immediately
after entering the
tank this worker was overcome with H2S and the deceased
entered
to rescue him. He was also overcome. A third worker was able
to
rescue the first worker but not the
second.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE: 1976-02-19
UNSAFE
ACT(S):
unsafe position/posture, inappropriate operational
position
UNSAFE CONDITION(S):
improperly guarded,
unguarded
improper ventilation
INDIRECT
CAUSE(S):
worker's lack of experience or knowledge
EMPLOYER
ACTION(S):
eliminate unsafe conditions
eliminate unsafe
procedure
provide instruction, training, supervision to
workers
OHSO ACTION(S):
issue a requisition or
order
approval of new procedures, equipment,
etc
other
OTHER'S ACTION(S):
safe-t-gram/bulletin issued
by OHSD, magazine publicity
OHSD education presentation
by
government agency other than OHSD, WCB or
judiciary
REGULATION(S): 27076016 27076016 27076272 27076272
27076272
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