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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: 30
OCCUPATION: distilling, subliming and carbonizing chemical substances
INDUSTRY:
natural gas processing plants
Industrial sector: mines, quarries and oil
ACCIDENT INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT: Confidential
PLACE: LEGAL DESCRIPT AREA: Grande Prairie region
NATURE OF INJURY:
burn or scald (electric burns not electric shock)
TYPE OF ACCIDENT:
explosions
SOURCE OF INJURY:
flame, fire, smoke
coal and petroleum products
ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION:
The deceased was working alone servicing the Gas Plant. He was
bleeding off a
propane line to the atmoshpere and an ignition source caused
an explosion
inside and underneath the floor of the plant. A rupture of the
L.P.G. line fed
liquid gas into the building.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE: 1981-04-21
UNSAFE ACT(S):
unsafe loading, placing, mixing, combining, etc
UNSAFE CONDITION(S):
hazardous spatial layout or work area arrangement
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
OHSO ACTION(S):
inspections
approval of new procedures, equipment, etc
OTHER'S ACTION(S):
inquest held (into fatal accident)
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