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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: 35
OCCUPATION: truck
drivers
INDUSTRY:
trucking by tanker
Industrial sector:
transportation, communications and utilities
ACCIDENT
INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT: Confidential
PLACE: EDSON
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:
hydrogen sulphide
exposure
ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION:
The deceased
sustained fatal injuries while filling a tanker truck
with
condensate. He opened the hatch to check if the tank was
full and was overcome
with H2S gas. He fell approxiamtely 21
feet (6.4m) to the ground. He was
found lying on the ground,
soaked in condensate, which overflowed the
tank.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE: 1979-01-02
UNSAFE
ACT(S):
safety device removed or rendered inoperative
UNSAFE
CONDITION(S):
improper ventilation
INDIRECT
CAUSE(S):
worker's lack of experience or knowledge
unsafe
job procedure
management's deliberate disregard of known safe
procedures
EMPLOYER ACTION(S):
eliminate unsafe
conditions
eliminate unsafe procedure
provide instruction,
training, supervision to workers
OHSO ACTION(S):
approval of
new procedures, equipment, etc
issue a requisition or
order
OTHER'S ACTION(S):
other
REGULATION(S): 27076000
27076016 27076256
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