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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: 36
OCCUPATION: pumping and pipeline equipment
operating
INDUSTRY:
operation of battery tanks
Industrial
sector: mines, quarries and oil
ACCIDENT
INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT: Confidential
PLACE: AREA:
Red Deer 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:
To gauge the level of
crude oil in a battery tank 12 feet high by 20 feet
in
diameter, the worker climbed the stairway to a platform near
the top of the
tank. He was immediately overcome by H2S gas
escaping from a relief valve.
The tank incorporates a gas
recovery system using a venturi (a short, narrow
piece of
tubing inserted in a pump or pipeline to permit measurement of
the
rate of flow of liquid or air) to draw gas from the tank.
It had been frozen
off, allowing gas to accumulate in the tank
and vent to the atmosphere. The
worker was not wearing his
respiratory protection apparatus although he had it
in his
truck; it was checked and found
serviceable.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE:
1976-03-03
UNSAFE ACT(S):
safety device removed or rendered
inoperative
UNSAFE CONDITION(S):
improper
ventilation
INDIRECT CAUSE(S):
management's deliberate
disregard of known safe procedures
EMPLOYER
ACTION(S):
provide instruction, training, supervision to
workers
OHSO ACTION(S):
inspections
OTHER'S
ACTION(S):
safe-t-gram/bulletin issued by OHSD, magazine
publicity
inquest held (into fatal accident)
OHSD education
presentation
REGULATION(S): 27076256
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