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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: 64
OCCUPATION: inspecting/testing occupations,
construction, not electrical
INDUSTRY:
oil or gas well
operation
Industrial sector: mines, quarries and
oil
ACCIDENT INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT:
Confidential
PLACE: THORHILD 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:
chemicals (not
coal/petroleum products, hydrogen sulphide)
ACCIDENT
DESCRIPTION:
The deceased was fatally injured when he
entered a 8' x 8' by 8' wooden shack
in which a break in a gas
line was releasing natural gas under 500 P.S.I. The
line was
broken by a D8 caterpillar with a ripper, just outside the
wooden
shack. He was found by fellow workers laying face down
inside the shack.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE:
1977-01-20
UNSAFE ACT(S):
unsafe position/posture,
inappropriate operational position
operating without authority,
failure to secure or warn
using unsafe equipment, using
equipment unsafely
UNSAFE CONDITION(S):
improper
ventilation
other
INDIRECT CAUSE(S):
management's
deliberate disregard of known safe procedures
EMPLOYER
ACTION(S):
eliminate unsafe procedure
OHSO
ACTION(S):
meeting with company representatives
issue a
requisition or order
OTHER'S ACTION(S):
inquest held (into
fatal accident)
REGULATION(S): 27076016 27176384
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