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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: 50
OCCUPATION: foremen, mining and quarrying
(incl. oil and gas)
INDUSTRY:
well servicing with service
rigs
Industrial sector: mines, quarries and oil
ACCIDENT
INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT: Confidential
PLACE: LEGAL
DESCRIPT AREA: Grande Prairie 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 the
well effluent (oil and water) flowed over the blowout preventers,
one
worker went to the blowout preventer pipe ram control and
collapsed while
turning the handle. The foreman picked up the
breathing apparatus nearby,
returned to assist the first
worker, and was also overcome. A third worker
came to help
rescue the first and was also overcome. The crew pulled
the
workers out of the gas area and managed to revive the
third, but the first
worker and the foreman
died.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE: 1978-08-18
UNSAFE
ACT(S):
safety device removed or rendered inoperative
UNSAFE
CONDITION(S):
improperly guarded, unguarded
INDIRECT
CAUSE(S):
management's deliberate disregard of known safe
procedures
EMPLOYER ACTION(S):
eliminate unsafe
procedure
OHSO ACTION(S):
approval of new procedures,
equipment, etc
issue a requisition or order
OTHER'S
ACTION(S):
other
REGULATION(S): 26776016 26776048
27076208
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